The “HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Regulations” announced by Xinhua Net on Feb. 12 require that HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge will be incorporated into university and high school curriculum.

The regulations require that at and above the county level, the education departments should direct and urge universities, vocational schools and middle schools to incorporate HIV/AIDS knowledge into student’s curriculum and to develop relevant extracurricular activities.

According to materials published by the ministry of health, United Nations Programme on AIDS, and WHO, currently China has detected through testing 141,000 people infected with HIV, a difference of 51,000 people compared to the recent estimate of 65,000 people infected as of 2005. This points out to the fact that the scope and depth of HIV/AIDS public awareness education relative to the prevention and treatment needs has large gaps to fill.

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