AIDS and that the Hong Kong Convention and closing, delegates called on Asian countries to China (2009-03-21 09:31:55) Tags: Health Man-color Comrade Asian News Talk Category: News Time
     In Hong Kong held a three-day Asia International Conference on AIDS in the February 20 closing, during which some delegates called on Asian countries in AIDS prevention-related policies to learn from China's experience.

 

     During the meeting, an AIDS prevention and gay groups on behalf of job-related, said Chinese in 2001 related to policy changes slowed the HIV / AIDS in China. Agence France-Presse quoted the representative as saying that in the 2005-2008 period, the Chinese people for homosexual conduct AIDS awareness have been achieved tangible results, at the same time have the success of Chinese government departments and civil society groups in the relevant Cooperation.
     The Conference organizers released a statement that in certain other Asian countries, will be charged with the sex of the law is contributing to HIV virus in the male homosexual population spread. A Closing of the session participants at the press conference the same day that as long as such laws still exist, it will be someone to push the dark.
     At the closing press conference, representatives of the United Nations Development Program Edmund Poll for some countries homosexual acts are legal questions to express their views conviction that there are still some Asian countries such as India, did not like the Chinese like to do, but in the continuation of the former British colony of relevant laws.
     For the situation in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Department of Health consultant Wong Ka-hing said that Hong Kong's HIV / AIDS awareness education programs will continue to focus on gay people, like, the Department of Health will also work with the active cooperation of local gay organizations, to the MSM population transfer related information. Wong Ka-hing, also said, according to 2006-2007 survey data, Hong Kong MSM in the HIV infection rate was 4 percent higher than in mainland China and other Asian countries is relatively low.
     The International Symposium on the United Nations Development Program are dish dish by the World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the Hong Kong Department of Health jointly organized, from Asian countries, government officials dish experts and relevant non-governmental organizations represented at the meeting.
     According to media reports this week, according to figures released by China's Ministry of Health, in the first nine months of 2008, the Chinese due to AIDS in the cause of the death toll of about 7000 people, this figure more than tuberculosis and rabies caused by the same period the number of deaths must be many, AIDS in 2008 at the first time become China's number one died of infectious diseases.

WHO: the need for action to deal with MSM continued to increase in AIDS infection rates

     World Health Organization issued a warning by the MSM and the cause of the HIV infection rate higher than expected, and there is rapid growth trend, the WHO consultant Massimo Ghidinelli held in Hong Kong three days before an emergency meeting to discuss response measures.
     World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a warning: If Asian governments is no longer possible to propose effective solutions, in Asia MSM HIV prevalence among will continue to rise.
     Show unsafe MSM HIV epidemic is still the cause of the biggest causes of, HIV infection rates remain high in the Asian region has aroused the concern of WHO, WHO Western Pacific Region dish the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Organization of the United Nations AIDS program dish (UNAIDS) and the Hong Kong Department of Health joint cooperation agreement to combat the great enemy of HIV and AIDS.
     Asian countries from HIV / AIDS experts and NGO representatives gathered in Hong Kong, participated in the February 18 to 20 day to discuss the special problem of the AIDS Conference.
     WHO specialized HIV / AIDS and sexually transmitted disease consultant Massimo Ghidinelli pointed out: "At present, the HIV infection rate in Asia than we expected much higher, we definitely have to be driven at the situation before it gets worse at MSM ethnic groups to take urgent measures. "
     WHO experts believe that male behavior in the male group to strengthen the supervision and intervention methods are effective; at the same time want to step up to protect HIV-infected persons and the prohibition of discrimination legislative process.
     WHO experts also pointed out that MSM are infected with HIV and AIDS the highest-risk groups, in December 2007 a medical report noted that Cambodia and Vietnam, the male actors in the male compared to other ethnic groups are infected with HIV and AIDS most of the crowd; while in China, MSM infection rates of HIV and AIDS than the general population 45 times higher; in Asia infected with HIV and AIDS in the MSM all over the world at the highest in the first spaces, reaching 10 million people. All these astonishing reality and data all indicate that the Asian male actors male HIV infection and AIDS has become a pressing problem demanding prompt solution dish big problem.
     The latest United Nations AIDS program, a report showed that HIV and AIDS prevention intervention project really come into contact with MSM less than one percent, the report also shows that the vast majority of the Asia-Pacific region developed by National HIV and AIDS control strategies have not put MSM into the publicity effort.

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