Volunteers help Muslims in Xinjiang become more tolerant of HIV
Source: Xinhua [09:30 December 02 2011]
"With years of promotion, people now know major transmission channels for AIDS, and many no longer look down upon AIDS patients," said Hailiman,director of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Center of Red Cross Society of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region branch.
According to Dilixiati, director of the local AIDS prevention and control working committee office under the regional Department of Health, the regional government has brought religious figures to 59 mosques in Xinjiang's high risk areas recently, and promoted HIV/AIDS related knowledge to more than 5,000 imams in the hopes of raising public awareness among Muslims.
The region has also carried out competitions among middle school students who are multilingual on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
For Ayinuer, she devotes most of her her time and energy into her work and her life continues to improve. Last year on Dec. 1, which is also the World AIDS Day, she and an HIV-positive colleague got married.
"I still fear for the future every day, but I'm much more content with life now," she said. "He loves me and treats my daughter as his own."
