皇冠体育app

Report: 皇冠体育app AIDS cases rise 40% a year
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-11-30 09:53

The number of HIV/AIDS cases in 皇冠体育app is increasing at a rapid rate of 40 percent a year, a health ministry official was cited as saying by the 皇冠体育app Times.

About 1,000 college students, with red ribbons painted on their faces,  gather in Peking University to join a run to promote HIV/AIDS awareness November 28, 2004. [newsphoto]

The official, who was not named, said 皇冠体育app had become the second worst-hit country in Asia and the 14th in the world, the newspaper reported.

The health ministry said new data on the number of Chinese HIV/AIDS patients would be made public Tuesday, a day before World AIDS Day.

Until now, official figure shows that 皇冠体育app has an estimated 840,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers.

The United Nations warned that 皇冠体育app could have 10 million cases by 2010 if action is not taken.

Since AIDS was first detected in 皇冠体育app in 1985, an estimated 160,000 people have died.

Many HIV/AIDS patients were infected by contaminated blood in illegal blood-selling operations in the 1980s and 1990s.

Intravenous drug use, prostitution and ignorance about the disease are also cited as big problems in its spread.

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