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Sino-Australian AIDS Prevention Project for Youth
The Guangxi Red Cross Society and the University of Melbourne, Australia, jointly started a one-year program Saturday to spread knowledge about HIV/AIDS among young people in seven locations in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that border Viet Nam.
Selected Chinese college students in the seven locations will learn about AIDS prevention. After the training courses they will go back to their communities to spread the information to other youths with assistance from local Red Cross organizations.
Guangxi has witnessed rampant drug trafficking crimes due to its geographic location, and the population of HIV/AIDS sufferers caused by people taking drugs intravenously has kept increasing in the region, experts said. Statistics show that about 700,000 young people are infected with HIV/AIDS annually in the Asia-Pacific region.
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