December 1, 2018 is the 31st “World AIDS Day”. From November 29th to 30th, the party branch of the school hospital, together with the library party branch, the Student Youth Peer Health Team held a publicity campaign on AIDS prevention and control at campus gathering places, popularizing the awareness of AIDS prevention knowledge, and improving college students’ resistance to AIDS ability to make due contributions to solving the severe AIDS epidemic in China.
In order to implement the“Healthy China 2030” Planning Outline, further promote the AIDS prevention and control work, and implement the“China’s 13th Five-Year Plan of Action for Containment and Prevention of AIDS”on “Continuously Strengthening Publicity and Education for Key Populations” and “Supervising and promoting schools to prevent the AIDS special education task, actively encourage student associations, youth volunteers and students’ youth peer health team’s roles, strengthen the school’s prevention of AIDS and sexual health education” and other related documents, the leadership of the Party of NEFU attached great importance to the development of “teacher-students’ health, China’s Health” theme health education activities and a series of AIDS prevention knowledge campaigns.
This year’s anti-AIDS campaign theme is “Know your status”, that is “know your infection status”, testing is the only way to know the status of HIV infection, and taking treatment and prevention measures to control AIDS are advocated. The event set up a publicity booth in the Sunshine Hall of the school hospital, and the AIDS prevention and control publicity room opened a consultation clinic; another three publicity booths were set up in the library, food center and student apartment No.12 building, Section A. The AIDS prevention knowledge promotion activities were carried out for the student groups via an award-winning quiz, distribution of brochures, and viewing of exhibition boards which had enhanced students’ understanding of AIDS prevention, testing, and treatment. The China Education TV News program reported the anti-HIV series activities of NEFU.
On the day of the event, 2000 health education prescriptions, 200 publicity posters, 10 publicity boards, and 10 award-winning gifts were handed out, including more than 300 medical masks, environmental protection cups and gel pens were, benefiting more than 3,000 people. Posters and exhibition boards would continue to be placed for one week, and AIDS counseling clinics would be opened for a long time. Through this activity, majority of the young students had further learned about AIDS prevention and treatment, and had improved their awareness of protection and self-protection.