Chinese University Has Vending Machines Selling HIV Tests

Chinese university has vending machines selling HIV tests

The initiative to supplement the usual range of vending machines belongs to the Chinese authorities, which are seriously concerned about the growing HIV incidence among young people.

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Students attending Southwest Petroleum University (Nanchun, China) can now learn how they are doing with little to no check-out. Vending machines, which usually sell a variety of snacks for quick bites, are now offering new non-food kits. There are now HIV tests next to instant noodles. The cost of the kit, which contains everything you need for an express urine analysis, is about $ 4.4 (a little less than 300 rubles).

Source: Chinese Man Demands RMB 2 Million for Misdiagnosis

Yang Shoufa, 53, a resident of Zhengping County, Henan Province, is demanding 2 million yuan (about $ 300,000) in compensation for being mistakenly diagnosed with HIV in 2004. Then health checks were carried out throughout the province, over 280 thousand people were examined.

The initiative to supplement the usual range of vending machines belongs to the Chinese authorities, which are seriously concerned about the growing HIV incidence among young people. Now there are about half a million carriers of the virus in the country, and this number is constantly growing - among students, the increase was about 43%, and every 4 cases of infection out of 5 occurred through same-sex contact.

Students in China do not receive timely and adequate information on how HIV is transmitted. The carriers of the virus are avoided by their families and acquaintances, since in the public consciousness there is an extremely strong connection between HIV, AIDS and homosexuality. because of which patients may even be embarrassed to talk about the disease or go to the doctor - so that they are not considered gay.

Of course, the fact that only homosexuals get HIV is a stereotype that has nothing to do with reality. So, in 2015-2016 in India, at least 2,000 people fell ill with HIV after receiving contaminated blood. In Indian hospitals, donated blood is rarely tested for HIV as it is expensive. As a result, patients cannot be sure that the person whose blood was transfused was healthy.

Source: University sells HIV testing kits in vending machine

Students at a Chinese university now have the option to test themselves for HIV at their convenience, as they can now purchase affordable testing kits in vending machines.

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