Shenzhen City, with over 8000 HIV-infected
http://www.sznews.com 2009-09-17 10:08 Shenzhen News Net

Shenzhen News Net News (Xinhua correspondent Zhang Yan Lei Zhu goods) the city this year, AIDS is expected to break through 1000, and this is the morning reporter from the "field of reproductive health, medical staff initiative to provide HIV testing and counseling services (hereafter PITC)" the knowledge of the project launch ceremony. Although the city every year 100 million people participate in HIV screening, most of them mothers and babies before and after childbirth and surgical patients in the mandatory screening, participating in the voluntary screening, only less than 5 million people, accounting for less than 5 %. So, just how much high-risk behavior groups to improve the detection rate is currently placed in front of a health sector problem, PITC project is to make the best use of existing medical and health resources to expand AIDS testing and counseling to maximize coverage.

It is understood that, PITC project is the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Maternal and Child Health Center, a cooperative project, the first pilot of the two regions, one Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, and second, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Xiang Yunxian.

City, Feng, deputy director of Center for Chronic Disease Prevention Railway Construction said that the city estimates that the current has been detected and the "invisible" of AIDS patients and infected about 8,000 and 9,000, of which 5,000 are infected or have been detected in patients, as well as 3000 people are unaware they are infected with AIDS. From 2007 onwards, sexual transmission of AIDS has replaced drugs as the primary risk factors, it infected through sexual transmission increasing number of women of childbearing age, infants and young children the risk of HIV infection is rising. Although the city of AIDS each year about 100 million people the number of tests to detect the ratio even higher than developed countries in Europe and the United States, but to the free screening point of voluntary testing and counseling in the number of people accounted for only about 5%. Therefore, in medical institutions, medical staff took the initiative to a number of patients in need of AIDS testing and counseling services have become particularly important.

According to City Health and Population Family Planning Commission Director Lin disease control in Seoul said that the field of reproductive health care and the people close to covering pre-marital examination, pregnancy testing, production inspection, and medical and other departments or sections, the medical staff in these areas to carry out the initiative to provide HIV testing and advisory services, should be able to achieve better results. The experiments mainly by the Nanshan District People's Hospital, Hospital for Chronic Diseases, namely, health centers and maternal and child health hospital for joint implementation, the pilot period of one year, after which the city is expected to promote.