Unicef Aides AIDS Control Project in ChongqingAn AIDS control project aided with 400,000 yuan in funding from the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) started Sunday in the Chongqing Municipality in southwest China.This was just the start of Unicef's involvement in AIDS control in China's middle and western regions, which include Sichuan, Guizhou and Henan provinces, and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Since the first AIDS case was discovered in Chongqing in 1993, 69 cases have been found in the most populous municipality in China. Although these backward regions in China have reported low incidence of AIDS infections, local residents were found to lack knowledge about the epidemic. The project will help spread AIDS control knowledge in public places and especially among students and people of marriage or child-bearing ages in the region. Unicef believes that the project will yield notable results in prohibiting the spreading of the epidemic. The accumulated number of confirmed HIV/AIDS cases registered in China at the end of June was 26,058, which has been increasing at annual rate of 30 percent. |
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