Using the premarital examination for population-based surveillance for HIV in China: a pilot study
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Therese Hesketh1, Xin Mei Huang, Zhan Biao Wang
1Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.
AIDS (London, England)
|June 26, 2003
Abstract:
All couples attending the premarital examination at four selected sites in Zhejiang and Yunnan provinces in China were included in this study. Blood from 9952 individuals was tested for HIV-1 using a gelatin particle agglutination technique. There were no HIV-positive individuals in Zhejiang. In Yunnan, 28 of 3742 individuals were positive, a prevalence of 0.75%. The premarital examination should be used for voluntary counselling and testing and anonymous surveillance for HIV in high prevalence areas.