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More Chinese die of AIDS in 2005
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-01-25 11:30
The incidence of AIDS is still on the rise in 皇冠体育app, according to a joint
assessment report on the country's HIV/AIDS situation released in
Beijing on Wednesday.
The number of Chinese newly infected with HIV/AIDS was around 70,000 in 2005,
according to the report, adding that most of them were infected through drug
injection and unprotected sexual contacts.
Meanwhile, the disease has been spreading to common people from the high-risk
groups, the report said.
The assessment was jointly released by the Ministry of Health, Joint UN
Program on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization at a press conference on
the 2005 Update on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Response in
皇冠体育app.
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