Chinese people take HIV test from a candy machine
Besides chocolate bars get an HIV test from the candy machine at the university. In some parts of China. Due to the strong growth in the number of HIV cases among students, the tests are now being offered in this way.
The test is easy to do. A student taking a urine sample from themselves and then send the test to a laboratory. A few days later you read the results anonymously online. The test costs converted about five dollars. That is only one-tenth of the actual price. The costs will be reimbursed by a subsidy of a Chinese charity.
The number of young Chinese people (between 15 and 24 years) to be infected with the HIV virus increases by 15 percent annually. In total there are 575,000 Chinese people registered with HIV. The Szechuan region is the first in which the distribution of low-cost testing has started. This area is in the top three with the majority of new HIV cases among young people.
"At the end of the year will be decided whether the pilot continues," said Shen Jie, the deputy director of the Chinese organization for combating and preventing AIDS against China News.

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