Survey: women remain more vulnerable against AIDS
Experts suggested that the intervention of social gender perspective
At 15:33 on July 30, 2009 Source: Health News Network
Male migrant farmers and their spouses to stay in rural areas has become a stay on the women. Recently, the Department of Epidemiology, Anhui Medical University, its rong Qin doctoral instructors under the guidance of Professor Ye Dongqing, and the remaining parts of Anhui Province conducted a survey of women and intervention research, AIDS, women in rural areas remain high risk potential, and suggested gender perspective to intervene to protect the health of rural women.

Cluster group collected Linquan Wanbei region, Bozhou City AIDS谯城区focus on the two towns, where 18 of the 49-year-old woman 564-year-old left, non-left women's 1309 survey were compared to the left women under the gender perspective of social intervention research.

The study found that women remain 37.4 percent illiteracy rate, higher than the non-left 30.6 percent of women; knowledge about AIDS, only 49.11 percent, than non-53.99% of women remain lower; the population under investigation, there are 95.9% of households decision by her husband of life, which many rural women return from the cities and towns of the husband / boyfriend brought back without the risk of HIV infection prevention; left women condom use over the past year, only 2.9%, lower than the non-staying women ( 5.6%). Survey results show that women remain the incidence of multiple sexual partners of 8.0%, while non-local women, only 3.2% behind; local rural married women to participate in HIV voluntary counseling and testing was very low, an average of only 1.1%; women remain under investigation AIDS HIV infection rates as high as 4.3%, significantly higher than non-left 1.7% of women.

"Gender" refers to the social and cultural environment of men and women to determine a code of conduct. AIDS interventions in the past are the same for men and women, and gender perspective is the development of different sexes under different interventions. Such as the face behind women, organized the training of advanced agricultural technology, knowledge of AIDS prevention and advocacy; the development of local women remain influential peer education for AIDS; and her husband to go out before the face-to-face exchange of knowledge, such as AIDS. By contrast, use of social intervention, under a gender perspective, in the knowledge and attitudes, condom use, marital sexual decision-making power, the utilization of voluntary counseling and testing results, etc., are better than non-social intervention in a gender perspective. The study by the United Nations Gender and advocacy in China supported by the Fund. (In press Feng)