Anhui's AIDS monitoring network serves important function, detects 600 HIV cases

The AIDS detection network covering the entire province of Anhui has at present already begun the intial stages of set-up. According to recent statistics, the province has already detected 600 new HIV/AIDS cases through this network, whose vital function is to accurately and in a timely fashion provide an understanding of the trends in the province's epidemic situation and control the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

Currently this AIDS monitoring network can be found in the municipal and county-level Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in the province's cities, and across each of the various locations there is a total of 112 AIDS screening laboratories, including provincial maternal and child health clinics, provincial skincare clinics, provincial public health hospitals, provincial prison-managed hospitals, and in some cities maternal and child health organizations. The provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control has already set up a permanent AIDS laboratory, and 16 municipal Centers for Disease Prevention and Control done the same.

At the same time, CDC organizations of all levels across the entire province have set up 202 voluntary AIDS counseling and testing sites to provide the public and especially the high-risk behavior populations with free, voluntary AIDS counseling and testing services. Across the province there are 49 AIDS testing sites which have launched an inspection into the HIV situation among patients with STIs, injecting drug users, and sex workers.

In order to successfully carry out free anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS patients, the province has set up 15 flow cytometry instruments, 8 viral load instruments, and 1 HIV drug-resistance screening device in the provincial CDC and some major cities.