3,000 people contract HIV every month

[ 2007-11-06 11:22 ]

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The number of people with HIV on the mainland rose by an average of
3,000 a month between January 2006 and June 2007, a senior disease
control official said yesterday.

Wang Ning, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control
and Prevention, said that as of the end of September, some 220,000
people from 31 provinces and municipalities had been reported as
having HIV. Of those, about 55,000 had gone on to develop AIDS.

This year alone, the center has recorded 32,235 new HIV/AIDS cases,
in a ratio of about four to one, Wang said.

He said so far this year, more than 3,000 people had died from AIDS.

As of the end of June, cases of HIV/AIDS had been reported in 74
percent of counties nationwide, Wang said.

Yunnan, Henan, Guangxi, Xinjiang and Guangdong ranked as the top
five in terms of numbers of cases, with their combined total
accounting for 76 percent of all cases nationwide, he said.

Henan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Anhui and Hubei have the highest numbers of
AIDS patients, with their combined total accounting for almost 83
percent of the national total, Wang said.

But while the number of HIV/AIDS cases on the mainland has continued
to increase, the rate of growth has slowed, Wang said.

However, he expressed concern over the rise in the number of cases
involving sexual transmission.

Of the total cases reported in 2006, about 30 percent were due to
sexual transmission between people of different sexes, and 3.1
percent involved same-sex transmission, Wang said.

However, figures for the first half of this year show 37.9 percent
of cases were attributed to sexual transmission between people of
the opposite sex, and 3.2 percent by same-sex couplings, he said.

While the numbers of cases among high-risks groups - drug users and
prostitutes - had fallen, the general population had become
increasingly at risk, mostly because of unsafe sex, Wang said.

Questions:

1. How many people had been reported as having HIV?
2. Of those, how many had gone on to develop AIDS?
3. How many people this year had died from AIDS?
4. Which locations in China ranked as the top five for HIV cases?
5. Why had the general population become increasingly at risk?

Answers:

1. Some 220,000 people from 31 provinces and municipalities.
2. About 55,000.
3. More than 3,000 people.
4. Yunnan, Henan, Guangxi, Xinjiang and Guangdong.
5. Mostly because of unsafe sex.

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