Number of AIDS patients would exceed 300,000 withi
The number of HIV infected persons reported last year in China increased by 58 % as compared to the previous year, and the accumulated increase was 36.5 % of the previous year. According to such a high increasing amplitude of the epidemic situation and the multiple potential risk factors, Dr. Chen Xianyi, deputy director of disease control bureau, Ministry of Health recently said at the Third Coordination Conference of the Aiding Nations that, the present information of the HIV infected persons reported by the 31 provinces is but a 'a tip of the iceberg". It was estimated that the total number of the HIV infected in the country may have already reached 850,000 , and the actual AIDS patients may approach 200,000. It is also predicted that by the end of 2006 the number of AIDS patient in the whole country might be over 300,000 .
Dr. Chen Xianyi said that the case number of AIDS in China has been increasing for the last 8 years. Following the periods of propagation and dissemination, an even serious situation of AIDS now prevails with rapidly worsening of the epidemics and massive increase of the AIDS patients, resulting in a special situation of aggregated and individual epidemics in different regions. The infected persons and the patients chiefly were found in the rural areas and the multiple risk factors of transmission are continuously increasing., 百拇医药
Dr. Chen Xianyi said that the case number of AIDS in China has been increasing for the last 8 years. Following the periods of propagation and dissemination, an even serious situation of AIDS now prevails with rapidly worsening of the epidemics and massive increase of the AIDS patients, resulting in a special situation of aggregated and individual epidemics in different regions. The infected persons and the patients chiefly were found in the rural areas and the multiple risk factors of transmission are continuously increasing., 百拇医药