December 2, jxcn.cn - Wearing red silk ribbons, nearly thousand activists took part in an anti-AIDS rally in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004. They launched an HIV /AIDS awareness campaign to promote AIDS awareness.

Hu Zhenpeng, Vice-governor of Jiangxi Province made a speech during the opening ceremony of the campaign

Hu Zhenpeng, Vice-governor of Jiangxi Province made a speech during the opening ceremony of the campaign, and then visited Nanchang No. 9 Hospital, the pointed hospital for curing AIDS patients.

Volunteer hands free condom and AIDS prevention brochures

AIDS figures have jumped by 30-40% annually since 1994, when the first HIV infected person was reported in Nanchang. By the end of November this year, almost a hundred people infected wit HIV in the city, account for 60% of the infected people of the Province. The number of newly diagnosed HIV and AIDS cases were among drug addicts.

Campaigners to promote AIDS awareness