AIDS in the next few years, China will continue to strengthen the comprehensive monitoring, vigorously develop comprehensive technical analysis of the monitoring data for the formulation of China's AIDS prevention and control strategies and measures to lay a foundation.

This reporter from the recently held 2003 National Conference on AIDS and venereal disease in the monitoring work. According to Lu Fan, Dr STD and AIDS prevention and control centers reported that after 16 years of exploration. Monitoring of AIDS in China has mainly from the medical records of the passive monitoring stage, and sentinel surveillance report both cases, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, monitoring and entered the combination, the combination of biology and behavior monitoring, and an extensive collection, comprehensive analysis and sharing of information resources, comprehensive monitoring phase.

He said that the "comprehensive monitoring", according to China's conditions of our experts. and the attraction of foreign advanced on the basis of the initiative. AIDS is monitoring the implementation of an integrated monitoring, and is comprehensive, timely, accurately reflect the status and trends of the AIDS epidemic precondition and basis for the forecast.

According to Dr. Lu Fan, in 1986, China began to carry out monitoring of AIDS cases reported mainly, gradually establish and develop a reporting system for AIDS cases. But this passive methods of monitoring the number of reported cases and the actual number of cases was too incomplete information, duplicate systems and other issues. In 1995, 42 of the country's 23 provinces to establish monitoring posts AIDS, STD patients for monitoring high-risk groups such as drug addicts. To 2002, national-level post to 158 points, while 200 provincial outpost. Meanwhile, AIDS Epidemiological Surveillance and special investigation has begun in some provinces and autonomous regions. In 1999, using World Bank loans for projects in health, for the first time in Xinjiang, Fujian, Guangxi and four projects in Shanxi Province. were on the high-risk group, vulnerable groups and the general population monitoring, including monitoring of multiple sex partners, intravenous drug users, the use of condoms and clean syringes. 2001, the Sino-British AIDS prevention projects in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of behavioral monitoring, other provinces have, to varying degrees, to carry out monitoring work of the relevant acts.

This article was posted on 2007-02-27