Title: Evaluation on Establishment and Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Surveillance System in Guangdong Province
Abstract: Objective To analyze and evaluate the HIV/AIDS surveillance system of Guangdong Province. Methods The routine and sentinel surveillance data were analyzed. Results The rapidly increasing phase of HIV pandemic in Guangdong Province had been approaching, and the major risk factor of HIV infection had been identified to come from sharing injecting equipment that contains contaminated blood. Conclusion The surveillance system employed provides better insight into understanding HIV/AIDS epidemic, forecasting the trend of HIV/AIDS prevalence, making out the program of HIV/ AIDS prevention and control as well as evaluating the effectiveness of the program of HIV/AIDS prevention and control; also, it carries the inherent limitations such things as irrational distribution of sentinel sites and inappropriate time and size of collecting samples.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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