"I'd only just taken office," Yen recalls, "and actually hadn't given much thought to AIDS. Then, one day, my old teacher Twu Shiing-jer gave me a call. He told me that between January 2004 and September 2004 the number of new HIV infections in Tainan County had risen 300 % from the same period in the preceding year.
「剛上任不久，其實並沒有特別注意到愛滋病，」顏純左回憶，「有一天，涂老師忽然打電話給我，告訴我台南縣境 2004 年 1 到 9 月，愛滋病感染率是前一年的 300 %，把我嚇了一跳。」