The Chinese Ministry of Health Disease Control and Prevention郝阳Deputy Secretary said today: Mainland China discrimination against HIV-infected persons is still very serious in some provinces survey: 46 percent of the general population and a quarter medical staff of people living with HIV hold discriminatory attitudes; in a high endemic area of about 70 percent of health care workers do not want to provide health care services.

郝阳here at the "2009 Chinese anti-AIDS creative contest theme," pointed out the kick-off ceremony, discrimination has become a huge obstacle to the fight against AIDS. As a result of discrimination, the risk of infection many people refused to accept the AIDS testing, many people living with HIV to hide the disease. Which is not conducive to the timely treatment of their own, is not conducive to prevent the further spread of the virus. In addition, discrimination also many people living with HIV and patients were not given treatment and help.

郝阳believe that discrimination is not only not conducive to AIDS, but HIV transmission has become a large group of death. And the lack of scientific understanding of AIDS, discrimination and fear of AIDS have an important reason. He stressed that China's AIDS epidemic is increasing in popularity there is a wide range of factors, with sexual transmission has become a major route of transmission, the epidemic is moving from high-risk groups to the general population proliferation, prevention and treatment of the situation is still grim.

by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the China Global Fund AIDS project co-sponsored "anti-AIDS creative contest theme" will be collected throughout the country to promote the theme of anti-AIDS work, to mobilize the community to understand AIDS knowledge, enthusiasm, aroused the community's sense of social responsibility to fight AIDS.

It is understood that the competition this month in the country in December this year to start collecting the work is divided into text, graphic and multimedia three categories; Network Evaluation will determine the entries.