Jane Chen/ Shanghai Daily news

Four volunteers from central China's Henan Province are receiving AIDS training in Shanghai, today's Oriental Morning Post reported.

All of them are HIV/AIDS carriers from Henan's Shangcai Village and Ruanlou Town, the most hardly hit Chinese mainland regions by the Acquired Immure Deficiency Syndrome.

They started the 20-day training program from December 10 to learn the techniques and skills to help HIV/AIDS patients.

One of the four volunteers is Zhao Zheng, supervisor of the AIDS voluntary program in his hometown of Ruanlou Town.

Launching the aid program earlier this year, he has organized more than 300 villagers to receive HIV/AIDS tests and aided seniors whose children have died of AIDS.

He has launched a hotline (0370-8112269) to provide AIDS consultation service to the local people.

Diagnosed as an AIDS patient in early 2000, Zhao hasn't told his villagers that he's an AIDS patient.

"I worry that will make an obstacle for my work and prevent villagers to seek help from me," he said.

"Zhao Zheng is my name at work", he confessed.

His wife had been diagnosed an AIDS patient before his diagnosis.