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Schools in China required to report HIV/ AIDS cases every six months

By Gao Yinan (People's Daily Online)    10:48, August 11, 2015
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A volunteer signs on the red ribbons in an anti-AIDS campaign in a college in Anshun city, southwest China's Guizhou province.(Photo/ Xinhua)

The National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education have jointly issued a circular calling for strengthening AIDS prevention and control work at school.

Colleges and secondary schools are required to report epidemics of HIV/AIDS, at least every six months to the local education administrative departments for further analysis on the cause and factors that influence the outbreak, according to the notice.

National disease control authorities ask relevant areas and departments to develop realistic and practical publicity and education plans to improve publicity and education practices.

Free, confidential HIV testing as well as other prevention services will be offered to students so as to raise the awareness of HIV/ AIDS on campus.

The number of HIV infection cases among college students or graduates has increased significantly. AIDS prevention education in some schools is not in place which results in a lack of the awareness of sexual safety.

Many students do not know that MSMs (men who have sex with men) constitute an increasingly important group in the fight against AIDS, said an official of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

Given the HIV situation on campus, the Ministry of Education incorporated the education and management of HIV prevention at schools into training content for personnel of educational administrative departments and school hygiene management.

The article is edited and translated from the Chinese version of 《我国将建学校艾滋病疫情通报制度》, source: People's Daily. 

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