AIDS and rural laborers

Being uninformed on AIDS is as dangerous as being misinformed.

Of the 73 HIV carriers reported until September in the county of Chongyang, Central China's Hubei province, 72 are migrant laborers. And, 59 were infected while working as migrant laborers in urban areas. Apart from three who got the virus by drug abuse and from blood transfusion, 70 got it through sex.

The message is that migrant workers are highly vulnerable to the virus. What is noteworthy is that they were infected because of ignorance of the disease.