Aids education project for students passes the test

A campaign to provide information and help prevent young people from becoming infected is paying dividends. Yang Wanli reports from Yunnan and Sichuan provinces.

'The enemy we are fighting is HIV/AIDS, instead of carriers (people who are HIV-positive) and patients (those with full-blown AIDS). Prejudice toward AIDS patients could be more harmful than the disease itself," said Jing Xi, a ninth-grade student at Longquanyi No 7 Middle School in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China.

It was the first time the 14-year-old student had shared her opinions about AIDS with her teacher and classmates. Jing is one of tens of thousands of young Chinese who have benefited from the "Youth Love Station", a project sponsored by the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youth, a nonprofit organization that provides education to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among students.