Henan Province issues “AIDS surveillance implementation scheme”, epidemic will be monitored “anytime, any place”
[Big River News April 25 2004]
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2005-04-25/05485739549s.shtml

Yesterday, the Henan CDC issued the “Henan Province AIDS surveillance implementation scheme (pilot)”, according to this policy, this province will strengthen surveillance of AIDS. All medical organizations are required to immediately report any AIDS sufferer or person infected with the virus as soon as they are discovered. Long-term follow-up visits must be arranged for every AIDS sufferer and infected person they come across, in order to gauge the development of their illness and treatment needs.

According to the new scheme, Henan will launch province-wide, large-scale and sustained surveillance of the epidemic. All medical workers, testing personnel and health workers in medical organizations of all levels, disease prevention and control organizations and blood collection and transfusion units, as well as community health workers and village doctors will assume responsibility for reporting the AIDS epidemic. Each person with HIV or AIDS that is discovered and reported through the network in a timely manner will be the subject of a case study, so that their individual characteristics can be ascertained.

Each county (district) level disease control and prevention organization will carry out a follow-up visit with every HIV carrier on a half-yearly basis, and a follow-up with every AIDS patient at quarterly intervals. In addition, in order to strengthen the pro-active nature of the surveillance, disease control and prevention organizations should actively communicate with district medical and health organizations as well as medical units attached to transport, civil aviation, factories, mines, the military, the military police and the exit and entry health quarantine department. They should be urged to set up mechanisms for reporting information about HIV carriers and AIDS patients as well as collect information about the epidemic in a timely manner and implement a direct reporting network.

The prevention and health protection groups of the “xiang” (small town) level disease prevention and control organizations must go to the relevant district organizations (medical organizations, blood collection organizations, mother and child health organizations, family planning organizations etc) to get an understanding of the overall situation regarding the reporting of HIV and AIDS cases. At the same time understanding and information collection regarding HIV infection and disease outbreak in the community must be strengthened. Also, the province will establish and AIDS alert system in order to implement a timely response if any unusual manifestation of the epidemic is discovered.

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