Yesterday morning, northbound at North Beach, the capital of a separate area of the hospital, we put a Chaoyang District CDC VCT (voluntary counseling and HIV testing) clinic of the golden brand, where the main face of the male homosexual population, provision of HIV voluntary counseling and testing services.
Will receive free screening assay
Here, the service provider, in addition to CDC staff, Chaoyang District, mostly from male “comrades crowd”, including HIV infection; their posts before the CDC in Beijing accepted standardized professional training . Now, they are committed to prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases in companion population, the spread of AIDS, AIDS prevention volunteers.
This is Beijing’s first settled in the hospital and the “gay community” HIV voluntary counseling and testing clinics.
Chaoyang District CDC Jiang Shulin, deputy director of AI introduction in the future, this clinic will be free of disease control department of Beijing dispensed AIDS screening test kits, and has been the standardization of supervision from the disease control department, so more easily at high risk of HIV infection, in an environment of trust and partnership under the guidance of regular health department testing, counseling, and follow-up care services.
Previously, Beijing AIDS voluntary counseling and testing clinics, are set to the CDC, MCH and public general hospital dermatology, urology, obstetrics and gynecology and other key departments.
Jiang Shulin frankly, these out of Beijing early detection, intervention and patients living with HIV, does play a significant role, but coverage is still limited.
Received twenty or thirty men a day “comrade”
In fact, the first “gay community” HIV voluntary counseling and testing clinics, formally included in official disease control system in place prior to the time in more than two years, the exploration and disease control departments to research projects in the form of gay men in the community to carry out rapid HIV testing services.
Out charge, anti-Ai Gongyi male gay organization “Hello, volunteers” responsible person Xiao Dong, at present, every day, twenty or thirty gay men, in the “comrades” under the guidance of volunteers, here to accept Rapid HIV testing and AIDS prevention counseling services. Each screening HIV-positive blood samples, CDC will be promptly sent to Beijing to do diagnosis. Suspected or confirmed to be infected with HIV screening of “companion”, the volunteers can get psychological counseling and care.
In the outpatient consulting room, close to the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau special printed posters, two bare arms hugged the man, “Honey, do not be afraid, you have me.” Xiao Dong said that many gay men in HIV infection, after receiving outpatient counseling, AIDS prevention volunteers to become active life.
Source – Aibai.com
Translated from Chinese
