The interim achievements during a period of four years in the programs of AIDS prevention health education and the Sino-Australian AIDS companion education program as one topic of the discussion, were reported in the Fourth International Conference of Reproduction and Endocrinology which closed recently.

    The Institute of perinatal medicine of Royal Woman Hospital, Melbourne University, Australia in cooperation with Health Education Research Laboratory of College of Public Health, Peking University, and Research laboratory of preventive medicine of department of preclinical science of Shanghai Second Medical University, with the financial assistance from foundations in UK, Germany, The Netherlands and the USA, as of 1998 launched a companionship education program of AIDS/ STD/safe sexual behavior in 12 institutions of higher education, 4 ordinary higher middle schools and 4 vocational schools of Beijing and Shanghai. Approximately 40 thousand college students in the age range of 16-20 years and more than 8000 students of the middle schools and the community colleges went through this educational program. The results showed that the rate of awareness of the knowledge of AIDS among the college students and the students in the middle schools and the vocational schools of the two cities increased respectively from 68.35 % and 66.43 % to 90.52 % and 90.45 %. The rate of awareness of STD increased from 49.92 % and 32.90 % to 75.66 % and 47.60 %; the rate of awareness of safe sexual behavior increased from 41.90% and 37.63 % to 75.66 % and 50.12 %; the rate of discrimination to the patients with AIDS/the infected dropped from 52.7% and 69.5 % to 31.9 % and 54.0 %; the ratio of the college students being willingly to discuss the problem of safe use of condom with their partners in love increased from 49.7 % to 58.8 %. Among the college students and the students of the middle schools there is a feeling that sexual education carried out in the form of companionship pattern is the most easily accepted pattern of sexual education. The rate of acceptability of this form of sexual education increased from the original 22.6 % and 32.1 % to 40.4 % and 50.5 %. In the Shanghai Second Medical University, the companionship education on AIDS/STD/safe sexual behavior has been brought into the selected course for the undergraduate students, and has been awarded with the prize of the firs gradeachievement of Shanghai municipality.

    It was learnt that this project under the support of the Australian government, has launched the companionship AIDS education in the rural areas in the border areas of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Funds were also procured from UK for expanding the companionship AIDS/STD/safe sexual behavior education to the peripheral regions of Hainan province etc.. (查看原文)

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