Chinese AIDS status
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China's first AIDS cases are found in 1985.

 

AIDS in China nearly 100 million people. Second place in Asia, the world's fourteenth place. AIDS is very serious!

 

Our country the main features of the AIDS epidemic as follows:

 

One, involving a wide range of China's 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities who are found to be infected;

 

Second, the epidemic from high-risk groups to the general population, drug users sharing syringes with HIV are the main channel for dissemination through sexual contact, mother to child transmission of growth in the proportion of each year;

 

Third, infected mainly in young and middle-aged, mostly located in rural areas, for instance, the spread of illegal blood collection and supply almost 100% of infected persons in rural areas, but mostly in the poverty-stricken areas.

 

Fourth, some areas face the disease, the death of the peak.

 

Friday, the AIDS epidemic there is a wide range of risk factors, is mainly expressed in unsafe sexual behavior in the male homosexual population, among sex workers have a high proportion of shared syringes among drug users at drug abuse prevalent.

 

China is currently infected with HIV has about 100 million, about 830,000 AIDS patients are what count out?

 

Person in charge of the Ministry of Health said the figure is the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies support and participation of experts from the next measurement. The measurement and analysis of the use of the WHO and UNAIDS recommend ways of thinking based on the component method to the province as a unit sub-group on the status of HIV infection estimates. This approach gathered in the AIDS epidemic in Asia and the country has been widely used.

 

By the end of 2002, Chinese experts have adopted components of law and expert advice on infection measured by the cumulative number of AIDS 1,000,000. The person in charge said that the two estimates at the content and methods of measurement are different.

 

First of all, the past year for a total estimated number of HIV infection, that is, the first cases from the National AIDS start date of all new HIV infections occurred in the number, including the AIDS patients have died from drug overdoses or other causes, such as and the number of infected people died. And measured the survival are still the number of AIDS has been the number of deaths are not included.

 

Secondly, the previous estimate based primarily on national case reports, sentinel surveillance and local survey data. Calculations based on the 2003 National AIDS epidemiological survey data, combined with previous AIDS surveillance and epidemiological investigation information with reference to case report data to understand the severity of the epidemic situation in the provinces, such as infection, integrated assessment, measurement.

 

In the past, the main use of the estimated components of law and expert advice to estimate the cumulative number of infected provinces, and in accordance with information such as case report estimated the annual growth rate of the epidemic. The calculations using the World Health Organization and UNAIDS recommend the component model.

 

The past, the main types of high-risk groups is estimated that the number of AIDS infections, apart from the measured high-risk groups, but also on the low-risk groups and the general population the number of existing AIDS were measured.

 

The person in charge said that the World Health Organization and UNAIDS experts consider that this method of calculation used by Chinese are the most suitable method of the prevalence of AIDS, methods of use of reasonable estimates, more fully utilize the currently available relevant information. The information has good reliability.