The United States government-sponsored AIDS awareness campaign
April 8, 2009 14:33:23 Source: Xinhua
 
     Xinhua Washington, April 7 (Xinhua Wang Wei Yang Qingchuan) on the 7th U.S. government to launch a campaign of universal knowledge of AIDS, mainly for the most likely to be infected groups.

     Director of the White House domestic policy council Barnes said in a statement the same day, the goal of this exercise is to remind Americans, AIDS in the United States remains a serious health threat, and urged them to actively take the necessary precautions.

     The statement said that the exercise will last for 5 years, costing 45 million U.S. dollars, through the media and entertainment publicity channels are most likely to be infected with the dissemination of relevant knowledge of the groups, people of African descent from the beginning, and gradually extended to Hispanic and other ethnic origin.

     However, AIDS in the United States consider the health of the IMF, the publicity campaign "disappointing", calls on the Government to invest 200 million U.S. dollars, people give more to provide HIV testing opportunities.

     According to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, the United States the existing 1.1 million people living with AIDS, an annual increase of HIV infection were a total of about 56,000 people each year the number of deaths due to AIDS, more than 14,000. Among them, the African-American and Hispanic, etc. to show a higher proportion of infections.