The city of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province,
will conduct a large-scale survey on local male homosexuals for
better AIDS/HIV prevention and control.
An official with the Wuhan municipal disease control center said
that since 2004, the city has reported an increasing number of
cases of male homosexuals contracting AIDS through
male-to-malesexual contacts.
It will be the first time for Wuhan to conduct such a survey,
the official added.
The survey, to be jointly conducted by the disease control
center and a local male homosexual volunteer organization called
"Xinyuan", will become a part of a national survey on China's
male-to-male sexual contacts, sponsored by the Ministry of
Scienceand Technology and the Ministry of Health and covering 10
Chinese cities.
According to well-informed sources, the survey will be performed
among some 200 randomly-picked local male homosexuals, through
written questionnaires and consensual blood tests, to findout the
real situation of HIV and other STD (sexually-transmitted diseases)
infections in this high-risk group.
(Xinhua News Agency January 23, 2006)
