Mongolia joined global effort to stop AIDS/HIV
The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Hands up for HIV Prevention”.
Mongolia joined the global effort to stop AIDS/HIV. The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Hands up for HIV Prevention”. Mongolia organized a campaign to look at ways to improve prevention strategies, identifying key areas among specific groups of people who are vulnerable to transmission, particularly adolescent girls and young women. As of November 2016, a total of 219 people have been diagnosed with HIV in Mongolia, of which 35 people have died. Further study shows that 62 percent of those diagnosed with HIV are aged between 25 and 34, and that 80 percent of them are male. Doctors gave some advice on preventing AIDS/HIV. In particular, they recommended everyone, especially those aged between 15 and 49, to get tested at least once a year. A press conference and workshop on AIDS/HIV was organized along with public awareness-raising advertisement. NGOs, including Global Fund, are organizing various measures particularly; they plan to do events for young miners working far away from their family, extend testing hours of laboratories and hospitals, distribute condoms, and cooperate with school nurses on providing health education to adolescent girls and boys, and partner with the media on raising awareness of the public about AIDS/HIV. Furthermore, there are 84 hospitals and health centers that provide free consultation and health tests.
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