A state-run HIV/AIDS training center was put into operation recently in Yunnan Province to professionalize medical staff in the fight against the fatal disease, sources with the Ministry of Health said.
Fully sponsored by the Chinese government, the center is among the first six of such organizations to be established across the country.
The other five training centers will be located in Beijing and Shanghai as well as Liaoning, Hubei and Sichuan provinces.
Each of the six training bases will provide professional education for 5-6 of their neighboring provinces and regions on the treatment of HIV carriers and AIDS patients in a bid to achieve more effective result in consultation, diagnosis, treatment, and assistance in HIV/AIDS prevention and control.
Their main tasks of the year will focus on the prevention of HIV infection and early intervention, including programs of confining the spread of HIV/AIDS among hard-drug users and prostitutes with encouragement of using sterilized injections and condoms.
The Yunnan center, based in the Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Kunming, serves a region that includes Guizhou, Hainan and Guangdong provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said Lu Lin, director of the CDC.
China earmarked 29 million yuan (US$3.6 million) last year to establish traditional Chinese medicine treatment centers for HIV/AIDS victims.
(Xinhua)