Children dress up in costums from different countries and wave plastic hands during the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UNAIDS launch in Hong Kong of their global campaign to invigorate action for the millions of children affected by HIV and AIDS around the world, 25 October 2005. The UNICEF campaign called for people to unite for the care and protection of children.
 
According to a survey conducted by Social Survey Institute of China in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou, more than 80% of Chinese think AIDS is far away from them, and it will not affect their lives at all. More than 70% don't think AIDS epidemic has anything to do with them.

The survey also finds that many Chinese do not know how AIDS patients are infected. Though 83.3% of the responders know ADIS is infectious through blood transfusion, and 70% know sexual infection, only 36.7% of them know mothers can communicate the disease to their babies. Less than 40% know all three ways of infection, while 6.7% know nothing at all about the infection.

It requires the hard work of AIDS-helping volunteers to get rid of AIDS; however, only 27.4% of the responders would like to be a volunteer. Nearly half of them say they will not think about it at all, as AIDS has nothing to do with them. The rest do not know what AIDS-helping volunteer is.

What should one do to control the exploding AIDS epidemic? This is the last question in the survey. Sadly, 72.6% of the responders say that AIDS epidemic is beyond their ability, and it will not affect their lives.
 
Editor: Yan