More than 150 freshmen and sophomores had a special class in Room 425 in the Danqing Building at1: 30 pm, on Apri 21st. The AIDS, Sex and Health meeting class, taught by Wu Zunyou, director of the China CDC STD AIDS Prevention and Control Center, had its first live streaming in this room. Simultaneously, more than 30,000 students from Xi’an Jiaotong University, East China Normal University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanchang University, Northeast University of Finance and other more than 100 other domestic colleges and universities participated in this online class with the NEFU students.

As one of the 46 AIDS prevention and control pilot universities in China, the university is actively exploring the popularization education of AIDS prevention knowledge, conducting AIDS prevention and education lectures for the new students, and holding anti-AIDS themed classes. At the beginning of this semester,AIDS, Sex and Healthalso became a general education elective course. With the use of the immersed classroom and multi-live interactive features of live streaming, and the introduction of off-campus quality network curriculum resources, NEFU has not only achieved the effective docking with elite domestic classrooms and high-quality network courses, but has also promote AIDS education to made it more accessible to more students.

During the class, Wu Zunyou introduced the current situation of AIDS in China, the situation of young people and students in the epidemic situation, and jointly discussed how young students can carry out AIDS prevention and control. By enumerating the vivid examples that take place around students, it reminds students that AIDS is close to us, triggering students’ thinking about AIDS. Wu Zunyou said: “AIDS could be either frightening or non-frightening. It is terrible for the uninfected, because the death from AIDS is 3.3 times more likely than death from a common infectious diseases. It is the most serious infectious diseases facing Chinese. However, AIDS is not terrible for the infected person, because we have made great progress in the prevention and treatment. We need to give confidence to the infected people, reduce stress, and to inspire their confidence in life, so that they can live more courageously. Most importantly, we should prevent AIDS from spreading. After the class, Wu Zunyou had interactions with students online and answered their questions in detail.”