Great to see the Hubei provincial education department getting in line with the PTE theory of preventing AIDS through education!  Although we really didn't have any direct influence on this particular advance it is reassuring to see the idea catching on in China.  See the full article below:

Education best protection against infection
China Daily, 6 April 2007

Preventing AIDS through education! That's exactly what the Hubei
provincial educational department is doing. It has introduced a set
of questions on HIV in entrance tests for institutes of higher
learning, forcing students to learn more about the disease.

One of last year's questions was on how HIV could be transmitted:
through intercourse or blood transfusion, or from an infected mother
to her to be born child.

The move to use education to fight AIDS follows UN warning that the
youth are particularly susceptible to contracting HIV. Last year
about 40 percent of the 4.3 million newly infected people across the
world were between the ages of 15 and 24.

A China Children's Press and Publication Group survey shows Chinese
youth's knowledge of HIV/AIDS is far from enough. In fact, 25
percent of 3,000 respondents, all from primary and middle schools,
said their chances of contracting HIV were, at best, minimal. Given
the threat and poor knowledge of HIV among the country's youth,
Hubei's thrust on education to prevent AIDS is exemplary.

Wang Yi, of Shuiguohu Senior Middle School in Wuhan, will take her
university entrance exam this year. She concedes that though she had
learnt a lot about HIV/AIDS from the media and experts' lectures,
she still looked out for latest information. The questions have
helped "me raise my awareness about AIDS", she says.

That is precisely why Hubei's education department introduced such
questions, says its deputy director-general Huang Jian. The move is
the best way to raise youth's awareness of HIV/AIDS and help teach
them the ways of protection.

Students' interest in the subject can be gauged by last year's pass
rate: 62 percent of the 45,000 got all the questions right.

Hubei's inter-departmental cooperation to prevent the spread of AIDS
is part of a program initiated by China AIDS Roadmap Tactical
Support (CHARTS), under the office of the State Council HIV/AIDS
Prevention Committee, which has allocated close to 2 million yuan
($250,000) for the program.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2007-04/06/content_844578.htm