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PUBLIC HEALTH MINISTER WANTS GLOBAL SYSTEM AGAINST AIDS
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BEIJING GUANGMING RIBAO IN CHINESE 9 NOV 90 P 1
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//( (REPORT BY FAN YOU (5400 0642) : "PUBLIC HEALTH MINISTER CHEN
MINZHANG CALLS ON ESTABLISHING GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR PREVENTION AND
TREATMENT OF AIDS"))
( (TEXT)) BEIJING, 8 NOVEMBER (GUANGMING RIBAO) -- THE SINO-U.S.
SYMPOSIUM ON MEASURES AGAINST AIDS OPENED THIS AFTERNOON IN BEIJING.
CHEN MINZHANG, CHINA'S PUBLIC HEALTH MINISTER APPEALED AT THE
MEETING:
ADOPT REGION- AND NATION-TRANSCENDING JOINT MEASURES, AND
ESTABLISH A GLOBAL PREVENTION SYSTEM AND NETWORK TO EFFECTIVELY
CHECK THE SPREAD OF AIDS.
ACCORDING TO AN ESTIMATE BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
( (WHO) ), AT PRESENT, SOME 8 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE BEEN
EXPOSED TO THE HIV VIRUS; 700,000 PEOPLE HAVE AIDS; AND AIDS
PREVENTION HAS BECOME A PROBLEM WHICH CONCERNS THE WHOLE WORLD.
IN THE EARLY 1980'S, THE HIV VIRUS WAS TRANSMITTED TO OUR
COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY'S HEALTH DEPARTMENTS STARTED MONITORING AIDS
IN 1985. UP TO THE END OF THIS SEPTEMBER, THE COUNTRY HAD TESTED
MORE THAN 300,000 BLOOD SAMPLES FROM THE TARGETED POPULATION, AND
DISCOVERED 446 CASES WITH A POSITIVE RESPONSE, AMONG WHICH 68 WERE
FROM PEOPLE ABROAD, 378 WERE MAINLAND RESIDENTS; FIVE OF THEM WERE
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DIAGNOSED AIDS PATIENTS, AND AMONG THESE FIVE PEOPLE THREE
CONTRACTED THE VIRUS FROM ABROAD, TWO FROM THE MAINLAND.
IN THE AREA OF RESEARCH ON AIDS PREVENTION, OUR COUNTRY'S HEALTH
WORKERS HAVE ENGAGED IN A SERIES OF TASKS OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.
AT PRESENT, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A RELIABLE LABORATORY FOR
SEROLOGICAL RESEARCH; WE HAVE ISOLATED AN HIV VIRUS FROM A FOREIGN
TOURIST WHO WAS AN AIDS PATIENT TRAVELING IN CHINA, AND USED IT TO
TEST THE PRESENCE OF AN ANTIGEN; THERE ARE FIVE UNITS WHICH HAVE
ESTABLISHED P3-LEVEL LABORATORIES, TO DEVELOP RESEARCH ON THE
ETIOLOGY OF AIDS AND ON MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; WE HAVE ALSO EXPLORED
CHINESE MEDICINE AND QIGONG FOR TREATMENT OF AIDS.
UNDER THE CONDITIONS THAT NEITHER MEDICINE FOR EFFECTIVE
TREATMENT OF AIDS NOR SPECIAL PREVENTIVE MEANS ARE AVAILABLE, OUR
COUNTRY HAS EXTENSIVELY DEVELOPED PROPAGANDA AND EDUCATION ON AIDS
PREVENTION, TO HELP THE MASSES TO UNDERSTAND ITS DANGER, GRASP
PREVENTIVE KNOWLEDGE, AND DO THE WORK IN SELF-PROTECTION WELL.
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