Joint effort to combat AIDS risks
China's population authority has vowed to help reduce the risk of HIV among the country's mobile population by cooperating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on a three-year project along China's northern border.
"Migrant and mobile populations represent a serious challenge to the future success in combating the spread of HIV," Ru Xiaomei, deputy director general of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, told China Daily in a telephone interview yesterday.
She said four major border crossings and their surrounding communities were covered in the new program, including Heihe in Heilongjiang province, Yanji in Jilin province, Erenhot in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Huo'erguosi in the Xinjiang autonomous region.
