As December 1 is the World AIDS Day, let’s focus on the spreading the HIV-AIDS. One thing worth noting is that there are more youngsters being affected with HIV-AIDS.
According to the latest information from the disease control center that from 1990 to the end of October this year there have been 665 cases of HIV-positive in Ningbo, including 58 deaths. In this year alone, the number has increased by 105. It is worth noting that over 100 out of the cases of HIV-AIDS are aged between 15 and 24, taking up about 20% of the total. The rapid increase of teenage cases of AIDS has become a salient feature in Ningbo.
Dong Hongjun, deputy director of Disease Control Center: “Ningbo has so far got 9 college students who have been infected with HIV/AIDS. Four of them were reported this year. So we are much concerned about it. It indicates that in colleges and universities there exist some unhealthy sexual behaviors among the students, which allows HIV to transmit. The tracking research finds that one contracted the disease from the opposite sex partner, while the other three got the HIV from male sexual activity. “
It seems that youngsters do not have a good knowledge of AIDS. So on this year World AIDS Day, Ningbo is to focus on prevention of AIDS among young people. The theme for this year’s World AIDS Day is Universal Access and Human Rights. We should not see AIDS patients through tainted glasses.
Dong Hongjun, deputy director of Disease Control Center: “You can not get infected if you just shake hands, eat or take bath together with a HIV-AIDS patient. We hope the society can show more care for the HIV-AIDS patients. We should not show prejudice toward them and need to give them more care and compassion. Only with our joint efforts can we nurture a climate that protect the human rights.”
As shown in the AIDS Report 2009, about 60 million people in the world have been infected by the HIV virus, including 320,000 in China. In China, the transmission of HIV was mainly through drug taking and now sexual contact has become the main transmission channel. Besides, the transmission through the same-sex sexual activity has taken up 32%, which has posed as a grave challenge to the curbing of AIDS in China
