30th March---As long as there are more than a hundred workers in the various kinds of construction sites and private enterprises, these places must set up condom distribution boxes. The person-in-charge of HIV/AIDS prevention in Hubei province said yesterday that this move is to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission among migrant workers.
The source said that the newly discovered HIV infected persons from the various municipalities were all migrant workers, working away from their home towns. The member-units of Hubei province’s HIV/AIDS prevention committee will come together to address the issue of migrant workers contracting HIV/AIDS. The various construction sites and private enterprises with an intake of migrant workers from other provinces and workforces, amounting to more than one hundred, will have at least one information signboard on prevention of infectious diseases, public pamphlet racks for public health educational materials and condom distribution boxes. The various Rural Labour Force Transfer Training Schools that transfer workers to other provinces shall allow each migrant worker to attend a lesson on infectious disease prevention, receive a booklet entitled “Migrant Workers’ Health Handbook” and get a free physical examination.
The Hubei Transport, Railway and Customs departments have come together to take a step to widen the coverage of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign. Hubei Province’s Agricultural Department utilized the migrant workers’ training to include AIDS information into their curriculum and ensured the completion of educating 700,000 migrant workers. Women’s Federation, Union and Youth committees made use of labour training bases to push forward AIDS prevention education among the private enterprises, build peer education systems and enhance HIV/AIDS knowledge and skills training of young migrant workers.
2007: AIDS claims 168 lives in Hubei Province
Halting the spread of HIV amongst migrant workers will be Hubei Province’s focus for this year’s AIDS prevention activities. According to the investigation shown by Hubei Province’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Working Committee’s Office, there is an increasing trend of migrant workers contracting HIV.
28—29 March, Hubei Province’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Office announced that there were 628 cases of confirmed HIV infection (557 cases were residents of the province) with 265 full-blown cases and 168 cases resulting in death. Until the end of December 2007, Hubei has accumulatively totalled 3885 cases of confirmed HIV infection (3592 cases were residents of the province). Last year, the newly discovered HIV infections in the individual municipality were all from migrant workers.
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