Shenzhen HIV-infected mother and child this year, thousands of people at risk of infection or super-high -
http://www.dayoo.com http://www.dayoo.com 2009-09-30 04:03 Source: Yangcheng Evening News
Shenzhen this year, AIDS is expected to exceed 1,000 people, which is on the 16th this month, journalists from the "field of reproductive health, medical staff initiative to provide HIV testing and counseling services (hereafter PITC)" the knowledge of the project launching ceremony. It is understood that, PITC project is the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Maternal and Child Health Center, a cooperative project, the first pilot of the two regions, one Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the other is Xiangyun.

According to reports, despite the Shenzhen every year 100 million people participate in HIV screening, most of them mothers and babies before and after childbirth and surgical patients in the mandatory screening, but only participate in the voluntary screening of less than 5 million people, accounting for the proportion of Less than 5%. According to the Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Prevention Feng, deputy director of China Railway Construction said, estimates that the current has been detected in Shenzhen, and the "invisible" of AIDS patients and infected about 8,000 and 9,000, of which 5,000 are infected or have been detected in patients, There are more than 3,000 people are unaware they are infected with AIDS. From 2007 onwards, sexual transmission of AIDS has replaced drugs as the primary risk factors, it infected through sexual transmission increasing number of women of childbearing age, infants and young children the risk of HIV infection is rising.