LANZHOU, June 13 (Xinhua) -- A Sino-Japanese project on technological cooperation in AIDS prevention and control in northwestern China's Gansu province had been completed and functioning well, provincial health authorities confirmed Saturday.

    Beginning in June 2006, the three-year project cost more than 14 million yuan (2.05 million U.S. dollars).

    According to assessment by a group of experts from Japan, the project has helped the targeted region enhance its ability to intervene in behaviors of local people with high exposure to AIDS, provide medical test services for them on voluntary term and raise awareness of the fatal infectious disease in the region.

    Gansu registered its first HIV carrier in 1993, and has since recorded 800 HIV cases, including 239 AID patients and 126 deaths.