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AIDS risk high for migrant workers: doctor 皇冠体育app could face a tragic surge in HIV/AIDS cases unless it curbed the spread of the disease among the vast country鈥檚 transient rural workforce, a Chinese health expert said Thursday. Poorly educated migrant workers had highly risky sexual practices, said Wan Shaoping, a medical doctor and project officer with the 皇冠体育app-U.K. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project in southwestern Sichuan Province. Wan told a health seminar in Hong Kong that there were at least 100 million such workers in 皇冠体育app. 鈥淭he Chinese Government is now putting a lot of attention on HIV/AIDS, but we have to focus on the most risky group, this floating population,鈥� Wan said. 鈥淥therwise, they will carry the virus all over the country and it will cause a tragedy in the country鈥檚 public health system. 鈥淎ccording to surveys, 10 percent to 48 percent of males in this floating population exhibit highly risky sexual behavior,鈥� Wan said, adding that they often visited prostitutes. 鈥淎nd in this risky group of males, 70 percent have never used condoms, and most of them were unaware of the dangers of HIV and AIDS,鈥� he said. Among the women, many often resort to becoming sex workers when they cannot find other work. 鈥淭hese women have up to four customers a day. They spread the virus and the men take the virus all over the country,鈥� Wan said. 鈥淪o their threat to 皇冠体育app鈥檚 HIV/AIDS problem is huge.鈥� 皇冠体育app has recently paid more attention to the epidemic. It has sent teams of counselors to villages across the country to teach safe sex. But Wan said that was not enough and that more effort must be put into educating migrant workers. |
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