Various IEC activities to produce a social atmosphere of public opinions

Various IEC activities to produce a social atmosphere of public opinions

IEC on basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS to increase the awareness of the whole society is the key to HIV/AIDS prevention. Various forms have been taken to strengthen IEC activities.

1. Related units, peer educators and volunteers for HIV/AIDS prevention were organized during the big occasions such as the family planning publicity month and week, World Population Day and World AIDS Day to enforce publicity by sending out publicity vehicles, organizing folk dances, putting up banners over the streets, establishing publicity boards and distributing picture albums on HIV/AIDS prevention.

2. Conducted Publicity on HIV/AIDS prevention to villages, communities and households

3. Coordinated the Bureau of Communications to display publicity slogans on the electronic screens along Highway No. 201; coordinated the Association of Sciences to enforce study and publicity on HIV/AIDS knowledge during their professional activities to the villages; coordinated the government offices to organize students to attend related publicity activities during their holidays; and put up posters in the publicity window in Huangyishan Park in the county.

4. Enforced various IEC activities on HIV/AIDS prevention, so that awareness rate of the people had remarkably increased to over 95% (aware of more than 2 ways of HIV/AIDS spread).