Etzioni A, Pollack S, Ben-Ishai Z
Department of Pediatrics, Rambam Medical Center, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Acta Paediatr Suppl. 1994 Aug;400:22-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1994.tb13328.x.
In 1991, more than 15,000 Ethiopian Jews immigrated to Israel after spending more than a year in Addis Ababa. They came from remote villages and had had no contact with modern medicine for centuries. About 2% of these new immigrants were found to be HIV positive. Their completely different background forced the Israeli government to develop a special educational program explaining about the modes of HIV infection and prevention measures. The staff participating in the program were mainly Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel before 1990 and were employed as nurses or social workers. The goal of the study was to prevent the spread of the virus; thus the target population was those who were infected with HIV. As most of them were illiterate, posters with pictures were used to explain risk factors, and lectures were given explaining what a virus is and, especially, the "carrier state". Using this program the spread of HIV inside the Ethiopian community seems to have diminished.
1991年，15000多名埃塞俄比亚犹太人在亚的斯亚贝巴度过一年多时间后移民到以色列。他们来自偏远村庄，几个世纪以来一直未接触过现代医学。这些新移民中约2%被发现感染了艾滋病毒。他们截然不同的背景迫使以色列政府制定一项特殊教育计划，讲解艾滋病毒感染方式及预防措施。参与该计划的工作人员主要是1990年前移民到以色列并受雇为护士或社会工作者的埃塞俄比亚犹太人。该研究的目标是防止病毒传播；因此目标人群是那些感染了艾滋病毒的人。由于他们大多数是文盲，所以使用带图片的海报来解释风险因素，并举办讲座讲解什么是病毒，特别是“携带状态”。通过这个计划，埃塞俄比亚社区内艾滋病毒的传播似乎有所减少。
