艾滋病防治条例英文版

2024年1月11日发(作者：裘海正)

Decree of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China

No. 457

“Regulations on AIDS Prevention and Treatment” adopted at the 122nd Executive Meeting of the

State Council on January 18, 2006 are hereby promulgated and shall be effective as of March 1,

2006.

Premier:

Wen Jiabao

January 29, 2006

Regulations on AIDS Prevention and Treatment

Chapter I: General Provisions

Article 1.

The Regulations are formulated in accordance with the law of the PRC on the

Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Dias for the purpo of ensuring human and public

health, preventing and controlling the occurrence and epidemic of Acquired Immune Deficiency

Syndrome (AIDS).

Article 2.

Comprehensive measures should be implemented in the prevention and treatment of

AIDS. It includes the insistence of the principle of focusing on prevention and integrating

prevention with treatment and care, establishing the mechanism of government-led multi-ctoral

cooperation responsibilities with strong societal participation, strengthening education and

behavioral interventions together with providing care and support rvices.

Article 3.

Law protects the legal rights of people living with Human Immune Virus (HIV) and

AIDS patients and their relatives. It includes the rights of marriage, employment, asssment of

medical treatment and education. Any institute or individual shall not discriminate the people

living with HIV, AIDS patients and their relatives.

Article 4.

The people’s governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the

leadership of AIDS prevention and treatment, the establishment and improvement of cooperative

working mechanism with respective duties, and the supervision of works of relevant departments

in AIDS prevention and treatment.

Relevant departments of the people’s government at or above county level shall be responsible for

the supervision and administration of the implementation of AIDS prevention and treatment

according to their respective function and duties.

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Article 5.

The competent health administrative department of the State Council, jointly with

other relevant departments of the State Council, formulate the national program for AIDS

prevention and treatment; The local people’s governments at or above the level of county

formulate and organize the implementation of the working plan on AIDS prevention and treatment

within their respective administrative-zones, according to The Regulations and the national

program for AIDS prevention and treatment.

Article 6.

National government encourages and supports the people association of Trade Union,

Communist Youth League, Women’s Federation, and Red-cross Society etc. to take cooperative

activities for AIDS prevention and treatment with various levels of people’s governments.

Residents Committee and Villagers Committee shall help various local governments and relevant

departments of the government in educating relevant law/regulation, policy and knowledge of

AIDS prevention and control, and developing supportive civil activities and implementing works

for AIDS prevention and treatment.

Article 7.

People’s governments at various levels and relevant departments of the people’s

government shall take measures to encourage and support relevant organizations and individuals,

in accordance with The Regulations and the national program for AIDS prevention and

treatment and the working plan on AIDS prevention and treatment, to participate and to provide

donation to the works in AIDS prevention and treatment, to carry out behavioral interventions for

HIV infection vulnerable groups with high-risk behaviors, to provide care and supports to the

people living with HIV, AIDS patients and their relatives.

Article 8.

National government encourages and supports the development of scientific

rearches in AIDS prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; the improvement of science-technical

level of AIDS prevention and control; encourages and supports the development of traditional

medicine and tradition-modern combined medicine in AIDS clinical treatment and rearches.

National government encourages and supports the development of international co-operations and

communications in AIDS prevention and treatment.

Article 9.

The people’s governments and the relevant departments of the people’s government at

or above the county level shall give commend and reward for the organizations and individuals

who have made outstanding achievement in AIDS prevention and treatment.

For the people infected, suffered dias, disabled or died due to participate AIDS prevention and

control or during the implementation of their public duties, the people’s governments and the

relevant departments of the people’s government at or above the county level shall give subsidy,

relief in accordance with relevant regulations.

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Chapter II: Education and Communication

Article 10.

The people’s governments and the relevant departments of the people’s government

at various levels shall organize and develop education and care for, and shall not discriminate,

people living with HIV and AIDS patients and their relatives. The people’s governments and the

relevant departments of the people’s government at various levels shall advocate health and

civilized life-style, shall build well-supportive social environment for AIDS prevention and

treatment.

Article 11.

The people’s governments and the relevant departments of the people’s government

at various levels shall organize the distribution of educational materials, t up fixed or posted

significant non-commercial advertiment on AIDS prevention and treatment in the public

locations such as transportation stations, ship-ports, air-ports, public parks, and public

transportation tools (trains and ships etc).

Article 12.

The competent health administrative department of the people’s governments at or

above the county level shall strengthen the education and communication on AIDS prevention and

treatment, and provide technical support to relevant departments, organizations and individuals in

education and communication of AIDS prevention and treatment.

Medical care and health institutes shall organize their staffs to learn relevant law and regulations,

policies and knowledge about AIDS prevention and treatment; medical professionals shall carry

out educational communications to their patients about AIDS prevention and treatment when they

work during the process of diagnosis, treatment and counling for patients related to AIDS or

Sexual Transmitted Dias (STDs).

Article 13.

The competent educational administrative department of the people’s governments at

or above the county level shall supervi and monitor the educational activities on AIDS

prevention and treatment, including in-class educational cours and out-class educational

activities, in universities, colleges, multi-technical schools, and middle schools.

Universities, colleges, multi-technical schools and middle schools shall organize their students to

learn relevant knowledge about AIDS prevention and treatment.

Article 14.

The competent population and family planning administrative department of the

people’s governments at or above the county level shall u their network on communication and

technical rvices to organize educational communication on AIDS prevention and treatment.

Institutes of technical rvices in family planning shall provide education activities for the people

of child-bearing age when they provide their technical rvices in family-planning and production

health to the people.

Article 15.

Relevant departments of the people’s governments at or above the county level, and

agencies in labor-employment rvices shall strengthen AIDS education and communication for

the people of floating population from rural area to urban cities.

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Article 16.

Agencies in Customs Inspection and Quarantine shall strengthen AIDS education

and communication, and provide AIDS related supervision and counling to the people in their

rvice-ports.

Article 17.

National government encourages and supports Women’s Federation, and Red-cross

Society to take educational communication on AIDS prevention and treatment into their working

contents for women and children, to empower women in their health literacy and capacity, and to

organize their volunteer-members to participate AIDS education and communication

Article 18.

Local people’s governments and the relevant departments of the people’s

government at various levels shall take measures, encourage and support relevant organizations

and individuals to carry out educational communication, counling and supervision on AIDS

prevention and treatment to the HIV infection vulnerable groups with high-risk behaviors.

Article 19.

Mass-media, including radio, television, press and internet, shall provide

non-commercial communication on AIDS prevention and treatment.

Article 20.

Institutes, associations, profit and non-profit organizations, individual

profit-organizations shall organize their staffs to learn AIDS related law, regulations, policies and

knowledge; shall support their staffs to participate AIDS educational communication.

Article 21.

Local people’s governments at or above the county level shall provide public

counling phone-rvices on AIDS prevention and treatment in institutes of health and medicine

care.

Chapter III: Prevention and Control

Article 22.

Establish and improve the National AIDS Surveillance Network

The competent Health Department of the State Council formulates the National AIDS Surveillance

Program and Plan. The competent Health departments of the Provinces, Autonomous Regions, and

Municipalities formulate AIDS surveillance implementation and working-plan within their

administrative regions, according to the National AIDS Surveillance Program and Plan, organize

specific surveys on development of AIDS surveillance in order to understand the epidemical

changes and trend.

Agencies of dias prevention and control are responsible for surveillance activities to

understand AIDS incidence and epidemic and factors influencing the AIDS incidence and

epidemic.

Agencies of Customs Inspection and Quarantine are responsible for AIDS surveillance in people

through their ports, and report their results to the competent health department timely.

Article 23.

Voluntary system on AIDS counling and testing shall be implemented

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national-wide.

The competent health department of local people’s governments at or above the county level shall

point agencies of health and medicine to implement the voluntary counling and primary-testing

in all peoples who voluntarily coming for counling and testing, in accordance with the

formulated AIDS voluntary counling and testing method by the competent health department of

the State Council in co-operation with other relevant departments of the State Council.

Article 24.

The competent health department of the State Council in co-operation with other

relevant departments of the State Council, in accordance with the needs of AIDS prevention and

control, may establish the special conditions under which AIDS tests shall be carried out.

Article 25.

The competent health departments of the province or above, people’s governments

identify the labs for implementing the nationally required AIDS testing, in accordance with the

distribution of medical-health agencies and the epidemic of AIDS.

National Customs Inspection and Quarantine agencies shall identify the labs for implementing the

AIDS tests of people through their ports, in accordance with the criteria and practice formulated

by the competent health department of the State Council.

Article 26.

The local people’s governments and the relevant departments of the people’s

government at county level or above, in accordance with The Regulations and the AIDS

epidemic situations within their administrative regions, shall take measures, encourage and

support residents committee and villagers committee and other organizations and individuals to

promote behavioral intervention for AIDS prevention, and to help the HIV infection vulnerable

groups with high-risk behaviors change their high-risk behaviors.

Relevant organizations and individuals, when they take behavioral interventions in the HIV

infection vulnerable groups with high-risk behaviors, shall be in accordance with The

Regulations and the requirements of the national AIDS prevention and treatment program and

working plan.

Article 27.

The people’s governments at the county level or above shall establish the

coordination mechanism in their AIDS prevention and treatment as well as the works of anti-drug

abusing, organize relevant departments to implement the measures of AIDS prevention and

treatment for drug-aburs.

The departments of Health, Public Security and Drug Administration of the people’s governments

in Provinces, Autonomous Regions, and Municipalities shall support each others, in accordance

with the situations of AIDS epidemic and drug-aburs within their administrative regions, to take

active and well-prepared measures in the implementation of Drug-maintenance treatment for

drug-aburs, and other planned interventions.

Article 28.

The departments of health, population and family planning, industry and commerce,

drug administration, quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, Radio, film, and television etc.

of the people’s governments at the county level or above shall organize the promotion of condom

u, shall establish and improve the supply network of condom

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Article 29

The public location mangers, identified by the people’s governments of Provinces,

Autonomous Regions, and Municipalities, shall put condom vending machines or other tools for

condom distribution in their locations.

Article 30.

The rvants of public locations shall take regularly health-check-up and get

health-certification, in accordance with the requirements of regulations on public health

administration; the managers shall exam the health certification of their rvants. Servant without

the health certification can not carry out the work of the rvices.

Article 31.

The administrative agencies in public curity and justice shall take proper

preventive and treatment measures to HIV positives and AIDS patients among prisoners and

others who under their custody, in preventing the spread of AIDS.

Local people’s governments at the county level or above shall provide financial assurance to the

administrative agencies in public curity and justice for carrying out the preventive and

treatment measures specified in this article. Agencies of dias control and prevention shall

provide the technical supports and helps.

Article 32.

The competent health department and other relevant department of the people’s

governments at the county level or above shall take the trainings on knowledge and skills

necessary in AIDS prevention and treatment for health professionals or others who may be

infected by HIV during their business works; relevant institutes shall take effective measures in

health protection and medical care.

Article 33.

Medical care and health institutes, Customs and Inspection and Quarantine shall take

the standard precautions in their operational practice and dis-infection measures, in accordance

with the requirement of the competent health department of the State Council to prevent the

hospital acquired HIV infections and other iatrogenic infections.

Article 34.

Agencies of dias control and prevention shall carry out medical follow-up for

HIV positives and AIDS patients in accordance with the principle of regional administration.

Article 35.

Blood and single plasma collection stations shall test all human blood and plasma

collected; shall not provide human blood or plasma, either without HIV test or with the result of

HIV positive, to medical institute and blood-product manufacturer.

Blood-product manufacturer shall perform the HIV test for each of the plasma before it ud as

raw materials in the blood-product manufacturing; plasma, either without HIV test or with the

result of HIV positive, shall not be ud as raw materials in the manufacturing.

Medical institute shall perform HIV test for each of the blood ud in emergency room, shall

check the HIV test for each of the blood ud in clinics; blood, either without HIV test being

checked or with the result of HIV positive, shall not be collected or ud.

Article 36.

Human tissue, organ, cell, bone-marrow etc. shall be HIV-tested; the materials,

either without HIV testing or with the result of HIV positive, shall not be collected or ud, unless

the ud for rearch or training of AIDS prevention and treatment.

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Article 37.

Imported human blood, plasma, tissue, organ, cell, bone-marrow etc. shall be

approved by the competent health department of the State Council; imported blood-product shall

be approved by drug-administrative department of the State Council and obtained imported drug

certification, in accordance with the law of drug administration.

Approved, by the competent health department of the State Council, imported human blood,

plasma, tissue, organ, cell, bone-marrow etc shall be inspected by the agency of quality

supervision, inspection and quarantine, in accordance with the law of health quarantine and

administrative regulations. The, without quarantine or with the negative quarantine result, shall

not be imported.

Article 38.

People with HIV positive and AIDS patient shall perform the following obligations:

(1) Accept epidemiological investigation and direction of agencies of dias control and

prevention or inspection/quarantine;

(2) Inform the fact of being infected or suffering the dia to their xual partner in time;

(3) Inform the fact of being infected or suffering the dia to their medical doctor when they

come to e the doctor;

(4) Take necessary precaution measures to prevent others being infected.

People with HIV positive and AIDS patient shall not, on purpo, spread the infection to others by

any means.

Article 39.

When the agencies of dias control and prevention, and inspection/quarantine

carry out AIDS epidemiological investigation, the institute or individual being investigated shall

provide relevant facts.

Any institute or individual shall not relea the information that may be ud to identify HIV

positive, AIDS patient and their relatives, such their name, address, working institute, picture,

medical history etc.

Article 40.

The competent health department and the agency of inspection/quarantine of the

people’s government at the county level or above may al, test and disinfect the items with

evidence suggesting the items may be contaminated by HIV. Items being tested as being HIV

contaminated shall be destroyed or health-treated; items being tested as not being HIV

contaminated or after being disinfected shall relea the al in time.

Chapter IV: Treatment and Succor

Article 41.

Medical care institutions shall provide rvices of counling, diagnosis and

treatment to HIV positives and AIDS patients.

Medical care institutions shall not reject or make excu to HIV positives or AIDS patients in

treating their other dias.

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Article 42.

Staff in medical care and health institutions shall inform the person who is diagnod

as HIV positive or AIDS patient; when the person has non-behavioral capacity or limited

behavioral capacity, medical staff shall inform the fact to their guardian.

Article 43.

Medical care and health institutions shall provide counling and test on AIDS

prevention and treatment for pregnant women, and provide counling on preventing mother-child

AIDS transmission, pre-delivery direction, blocking, treatment, post-delivery direction, baby

follow-up visit, test and other rvices for the mother and her baby who is infected by HIV, in

accordance with the requirements of the directory technical protocol of preventing AIDS

transmission from mother to child formulated by the competent health department of the State

Council.

Article 44.

The people’s governments at the county level or above shall take the following

measures on AIDS prevention and treatment, care and succor:

(1) Freely to provide drugs of anti-retro-virus to rural AIDS patients and urban AIDS patient with

economic difficulties;

(2) Properly to provide free or low-cost medicine to rural and urban HIV/AIDS patients who are

in economic difficulties during the treatment of their opportunity infections;

(3) Freely to provide counling and primary test to the people who are voluntarily received the

rvices;

(4) Freely to provide counling and treatment to HIV infected pregnant women for the purpo

of preventing the mother-child AIDS transmission.

Article 45.

Orphan, who was left by AIDS patient and with economic difficulties, and

pre-matured child, who was infected by HIV, shall have free-text books/notes and

free-school-rvices when they receive their compulsory education; when they receive pre-school

and high school education they shall have low or free tuition and other relevant costs.

Article 46.

Local governments at the county level or above shall provide succor to HIV positives,

AIDS patients, and their relatives when they have economic difficulties and in accordance with the

conditions of civil alleviation.

Article 47.

Relevant departments of local governments at the county level or above shall create

the possibilities for and help the HIV positives and AIDS patients who have labor-ability in

carrying out their capable jobs and productions.

Chapter V: Assuring measures

Article 48.

The governments at the county level or above shall integrate AIDS prevention and

treatment into their economical and social development program, strengthen and improve the

building of AIDS prevention, tests, control, treatment and succor-rvice network, establish the

well-functioned AIDS prevention and treatment professional team.

The people’s governments at various levels shall include the expenditure of AIDS prevention and

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treatment into their financial budget respectively, in accordance with the needs of AIDS

prevention and treatment.

Article 49.

Local governments at the county level or above are responsible for providing the

necessary financial expenditure of AIDS prevention, control, and supervision-monitoring in

accordance with their respective functions.

The competent health department of the State Council, together with other relevant departments of

the State Council, shall identify national AIDS prevention and treatment related projects on

communication, training, surveillance, testing, epidemiological survey, medical treatment and care,

emergency management and supervision-monitoring. The central financial department of the

national government provides subsidies to the AIDS high epidemic area and the important projects

implemented in the economically under-developed area.

The people’s governments of Provinces, Autonomous Regions, and Municipalities identify the

AIDS prevention and treatment related projects, and provide the financial expenditures of the

implementation of the projects, in accordance with the AIDS epidemic trend and needs of AIDS

prevention and treatment within their administrative regions.

Article 50

The governments at the county level or above shall store anti-HIV medicines, testing

materials and other necessary materials in accordance with the AIDS epidemic trend and needs of

AIDS prevention and treatment.

Article 51.

Local governments at various levels shall formulate the supportive measures and

provide necessary financial and other supporting conditions for relevant organizations and

individuals in their AIDS prevention and treatment activities. Relevant organizations and

individuals participating AIDS prevention and treatment shall have tax-benefits in accordance

with the law.

Chapter VI. Legal liabilities

Article 52.

When local governments at various levels fail to function The Regulations to

organize, lead, assure AIDS prevention and treatment, or do not take measures of AIDS prevention

and treatment, and care and succor, the government at the above level shall order to make a

change and give public critique; when it caus AIDS transmission, epidemic, or other rious

conquences, the competent responsible person shall be given an administrative sanction; and if a

crime is constituted/established/committed, an investigation shall be carried out for criminal

liability in accordance with the law.

Article 53.

The competent health department of the people’s governments at the county level or

above commits The Regulations, and with one of the following conditions, the same level

people’s government or the competent health department of the government above shall order to

make a change and give public critique; when it caus AIDS transmission, epidemic, or other

rious conquences, the competent responsible person and other directly responsible persons

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shall be given an administrative sanction; and if a crime is constituted/established/committed, an

investigation shall be carried out for criminal liability in accordance with the law.

(1) Fail to function the education and communication duties of AIDS prevention and treatment;

(2) Fail to take control measures to the items with evidence of possible HIV contamination;

(3) Other relevant behavior in non- accordance with their respective duties.

Agencies of Customs inspection and quarantine have the above circumstance; the competent

department above shall give sanctions in accordance with this article.

Article 54.

Relevant departments of people’s governments at the county level or above fail to

function their duties on education and communication, prevention and control; the same level

people’s government or the relevant department of the government above shall order to make a

change and give public critique; when it caus AIDS transmission, epidemic, or other rious

conquences, the competent responsible person and other directly responsible persons shall be

given an administrative sanction; and if a crime is constituted/established/committed, an

investigation shall be carried out for criminal liability in accordance with the law.

Article 55.

Medical care and health institution fail to function their duties, and with one of the

following conditions, the competent health department of the government at the county level or

above shall order to make a change within a limited time period and give public critique/warning;

when it caus AIDS transmission, epidemic, or other rious conquences, the competent

responsible person and other directly responsible persons shall be given a down-position, post

taken, dismissal from the post and revoking the certification of the institution or responsible

person’s occupational permission; and if a crime is constituted/established/committed, an

investigation shall be carried out for criminal liability in accordance with the law.

(1) Fail to function the duty of AIDS surveillance;

(2) Fail to provide free counling and primary testing in accordance with The Regulations;

(3) Fail to take an AIDS testing on the blood collected in the emergency situation; fail to

check-up the result of AIDS testing on the blood ud in clinical treatment; or u HIV

positive blood in clinic;

(4) Fail to follow the standard precaution principle, or fail to perform the operational procedures

and dis-infection administration, cau AIDS infections in hospital or other iatrogenic

infections.

(5) Fail to take health protection and medical care measures;

(6) Refu or make an excu to treat other dias of HIV positives or AIDS patients;

(7) Fail to carry out medical follow-up care for HIV positives or AIDS patients;

(8) Fail to provide technical directions to HIV positive pregnant women and her babies for the

purpo of preventing mother-child AIDS transmission.

Agencies of Customs inspection and quarantine have the above circumstance (1), (4) (5); the

competent department above shall give sanctions in accordance with this article.

Article 56.

Medical care and health institution violate paragraph 2 of the article 39 of The

Regulations, publicly releasing the information of HIV positives, AIDS patients and their relatives,

shall be sanctioned in accordance with the law of prevention and treatment of infectious dias.

Agencies of Customs inspection and quarantine, family-planning technical rvices or other

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unit/individual violate paragraph 2 of the article 39 of The Regulations, publicly releasing the

information of HIV positives, AIDS patients and their relatives, the above competent department

shall order to make a change and give public critique/warning; the competent responsible person

and other directly responsible persons shall be given a sanction in accordance with the law, and if

the circumstances are rious, the permission-issuing department shall revoke the permission of

the agencies or responsible person’s certification.

Article 57.

Blood and single plasma collection stations violate The Regulations and with one

of the following conditions, if a crime is constituted/established/committed, an investigation shall

be carried out for criminal liability in accordance with the law, if not, then the competent health

department of the people’s governments at the county level or above shall give a sanction in

accordance with the law of blood donation and the regulations on blood-products administration;

when it caus AIDS transmission, epidemic, or other rious conquences, the competent

responsible person and other directly responsible persons shall be given a down-position, post

taken, dismissal from the post, and it may also revoke the certification of the blood collection

station or the single plasma collection station:

(1) Fail to carry out AIDS test for the collected human blood or plasma, or continue to collect the

HIV positive human blood or plasma;

(2) Provide human blood or plasma, with HIV positive or without AIDS testing, to medical

institution and blood-product manufacturer.

Article 58.

When any agency, that violates article 36 of The Regulation to collect or u

human tissue, organ, cell, and bone marrow etc, the competent health department of the county

people’s government shall order the agency to make a change and give public critique/warning;

when the circumstance is rious, the agency shall be stopped for operation until further notice,

the operational certification or business licen shall be revoked by the issuing department.

Article 59.

Agency of Customs Inspection and Quarantine shall ban the importation or monitor

the disposal of the imported human blood, plasma, tissue, organ, cell, bone marrow etc, which

failed to get the import-permission from the competent department of the State Council; when any

agency provides or u human blood plasma, tissue, organ, cell, bone marrow etc. which does not

be inspected by the Customs Inspection and Quarantine, the competent health department at the

county level or above shall confiscate the items and all incomes against the law, and impo a

fine of, not less than 3 and not more than 5 times, the value of the items; the competent

responsible person and other directly responsible persons shall be given a sanction, in accordance

with the law by its agency or the competent department above.

Imported blood-product without the permission of drug-administration of the State Council shall

be given a sanction in accordance with the regulations of drug administration.

Article 60.

Blood and simple plasma collection station, medical care and health institution, and

blood-product manufacturer, that violate the law and the administrative regulations and thereby

causing other person being infected by HIV, shall be assumed to have compensation liability in

accordance with the civil law.

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Article 61.

The competent health department of the people’s governments at the county level or

above shall order a warning and a change within a limited period of time to the manager of public

locations, who fails to check the health-certification of the rvants or to permit rvant without a

health certification to provide the rve, and to the manager of public location, who fails to put

condom vending machine or distribute condoms in its location which is identified by the people’s

government at Provinces, Autonomous Regions, or Municipalities. The managers may also be

impod a fine of, not less than 500 RMB and not more than 5000 RMB; when the manager fails

to make a change within the limited period of time, the business shall be ordered to stop, and when

the circumstance is rious, its business permission or licen shall be revoked by its issuing

department.

Article 62.

HIV positive or AIDS patient who on purpo spread AIDS shall have the legal

liability for compensation in accordance with the civil law, and if a crime is

constituted/established/committed, an investigation shall be carried out for criminal liability in

accordance with the law.

Chapter VII: Supplementary Provisions

Article 63.

Terms as ud in The Regulations shall have the defined meaning:

AIDS means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome caud by Human Immune Virus.

Drug-maintenance treatment for drug-aburs means a maintaining treatment of using the proper

drug for drug-abur, that shall be performed within the medical care or health institution which is

permitted to carry out drug-addiction treatment, and for the purpo of relieving the

addictive-respon of the abud drug, reducing the infection and spread of HIV caud by

injecting the abud drug, and thereby reducing the dias, death, and crimes caud by the

addiction to the abud drug.

Standard precaution principle means that medical and health staff shall take all necessary

protection measures whenever they contact patients’ blood or other human body-liquid, or the item

contaminated by human blood or body-liquid, all of which shall be regarded as potentially

infectious pathogenic.

HIV infection vulnerable groups with high-risk behaviors means the groups of the people who

practice the risk-behavior of commercial x, multi-xual partners, or injecting drug u, and men

who have x with men.

AIDS surveillance means systemically and continuously to collect data about the distribution of

AIDS (or HIV infection) among various human groups and relevant factors, to comprehensively

analyze the data, for the purpo of providing timely and reliable information to relevant

department in the strategy and measures designing of AIDS prevention and control, and evaluating

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the effectiveness of the prevention and control measures.

AIDS testing means to test human blood, other body-liquid, organ tissue, blood-derivative for HIV,

HIV-antibody and relevant immune indicators. It includes the AIDS testing during surveillance,

inspection and quarantine, voluntary counling and testing, clinical diagnosis, and screening of

blood and blood-products.

Measures of behavior interventions mean various measures that can effectively reduce the spread

of AIDS. It includes: Methadone maintenance treatment for the purpo of blocking AIDS

transmission among injecting drug urs; condemn promotion and usage measures for the purpo

of blocking AIDS transmission through x, and standardized and simplified diagnostic and

treatment measures for xually transmitted dias; measures of anti-retro-virus prevention and

artificial milk-product for baby-feed etc for the purpo of blocking the mother-child AIDS

transmission; voluntary counling and testing for the purpo of early finding the HIV infection

and helping risk behavior change; health education measures and peer-education for the purpo

of raising individual health literacy and reducing risk behavior. .

Article 64.

The Regulations shall be effective as of the date of March 1, 2006.

Several provisions on AIDS surveillance administration verified by the State Council on

December 26 1987 and promulgated by Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry

of Public Security, ex-National Education Committee, National Tourism Administration,

ex-Chine Civil Aviation Administration, and National Foreign Exports Administration on

January 14, 1988 shall be repealed simultaneously.

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