The Shangcai County television station and the displays at the health exhibit warned that blood transfusions from other people can be unsafe and promoted autologous transfusions instead. Lower levels of township and village health workers do public health work outside the Shangcai county seat. From the 1970s Sexually Transmitted Disease Has Arisen from the Ashes. There were 670,000 officially recorded cases of sexually transmitted diseases in China. Many private STD clinics do not make the required reports of STD cases.
Prevention Comes First.
Prevention is the most important AIDS measure. Chinese HIV experts expect that sexual transmission will become the principal mode of HIV transmission in China within several years. Yunnan Province which has the longest experience with the HIV epidemic may be the most open about its HIV problem. Some aspects of the HIV situation in Shanxi, Henan, Xinjiang and some other areas are still secret. Some heretofore secret information about HIV is beginning to appear in the Chinese press.