One way to mark World AIDS Day today would be to aberrate over to Yuyuan Road near the Jing'an Temple for a meal at Shanghai's aboriginal AIDS-themed restaurant.
The restaurant staffer decorates the bank with
red ribbons, a brand attribute for AIDS prevention. It's reportedly
China's aboriginal AIDS-themed restaurant. [East Morning
Post]
The Chinese eatery, which was set up
by a bounded media close and a US multinational, will accord abroad condoms to developed
dinners and animate barter to accord their change to AIDS charities.
The restaurant, called Wumizhou, will accessible today targeting white-collar workers, according to admiral with the Wumizhou Group.
"Following the antecedence of an AIDS beanery in Thailand, this affair restaurant in Shanghai was launched by the Wumizhou Group and US-based 3M to wipe out prejudice, deliver condoms, advance apprenticeship and sponsor AIDS charities," said Fang Yifang, an official in allegation of bounded AIDS alms programs.
Officials from 3M said their aggregation does a lot of plan with breast blight charities in the United States, and they were analytic to do added alms plan in Shanghai, so the restaurant seemed like a acceptable idea.
The Shanghai Health Bureau appear bygone that the city-limits has detected 1,506 HIV carriers back it began screening for the ache about 10 years ago, including 164 humans with absolute AIDS.
So far this year, 356 bounded association accept been diagnosed with HIV, a 64 percent access from endure year.
"Among the anew detected carriers of the virus, the amount of males is 4.4 times that of females. Seventy-eight are locals, 271 appear from added ambit and seven are from overseas," said Peng Jin, a agency official.
Most of the adulterated locals bent the virus through alarming sex, while about half of the migrants bent it from acclimated needles, Peng said.
People amid the ages of 21 and 40 anniversary for a little added than two-thirds of the 356 HIV carriers detected this year.
Peng acclaimed that 21 medical accessories in Shanghai began alms chargeless HIV and AIDS testing this year as able-bodied as chargeless analysis for those who analysis positive.
Of the about 2,000 humans who accept been activated at those accessories this year, 26 activated absolute for HIV.
The Shanghai Public Health Center provides chargeless medication and analysis for AIDS patients, Peng said.
