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China launched anti-AIDS campaign for migrant workers

www.chinanews.cn 2006-02-08 15:08:31

Chinanews, Kunming, Feb. 8 �C A campaign that aims to teach migrant
workers on the prevention of AIDS disease was recently kicked off in
southwest China��s Yunnan province. Wang Yuanxin, director of the
Floating Population Department of the Yunnan Population Control
Committee, said that the pilot project in Yunnan will offer a
comprehensive service to inform migrant workers of the AIDS disease and
methods for disease prevention and treatment, with married migrant women
being the key group in this project.
It is estimated that at present, about 140 million labor force move from
rural regions to large cities for employment and Yunnan has nearly 4
million such migrant workers, according to available statistics. Such
number will continue to grow in future. As almost all these migrant
workers are aged between 18-49 and do not have sufficient physiology,
psychology or hygiene knowledge, publicizing knowledge on AIDS prevention
becomes an imperative task.
Wang said that women played an important role in birth giving process and
they should be informed in a convenient and easy way about knowledge of
AIDS. While the project aimed at providing knowledge for all migrant
workers, married migrant women would be the main group in the project. By
offering community trainings, publicizing pictures and pamphlets, and
issuing free condoms at railway station, it is expected that migrant
women workers would be more aware of self-protection and take measures to
stay away from the disease.

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