Southeast China's Yunnan Province has used more than US$1 million in aid from international organizations to help needy women and children in recent years.
With funds from such organizations as UNICEF and the International Labor Organization, the province has developed more than 60 programs aimed at poor women and children that include AIDS prevention, nursing children and educating female school dropouts.
The AIDS prevention program has trained more than 2,100 grassroots officials in prevention of HIV infection. And these officials passed on their knowledge to some 70,000 local people.
This has greatly improved people's understanding of AIDS in a province where, due to the lack of information, the numbers of people infected with this fatal disease have risen in recent years.
From another program aimed at reducing the maternity and infant death rate, more than 35,000 people from 44 poor counties gained basic medical knowledge via radio or TV.
(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2003)
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