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More women infected by AIDS in Yunnan

www.chinanews.cn 2006-05-16 17:04:59

Chinanews, Kunming, May 16 �C An international seminar titled
��Preventing AIDS: Sharing the Experience and Reflecting on It�� was
recently held in southwest China's Yunnan province. Participants of the
seminar blamed unprotected sexual intercourse as the main reason for the
fast increase of the AIDS-infected women in Yunnan.
According to an official from the Yunnan Public Health Office attending
the seminar, there are some changes in the way people are infected by
AIDS virus in Yunnan: the number of women infected by the AIDS virus has
increased drastically in recent years and the ratio of women infected to
that of men has increased from 1:9 in the 1990s to the present 1:3. While
drug injection still accounts for 65% of the total infection cases,
infection through sexual intercourse has increased rapidly, from 0.4% in
the early 1990s to the present 12%.
AIDS has been prevalent in Yunnan for over 16 years and Yunnan is
considered as a place most seriously hit by the disease. It is reported
that at least 80,000 people have been infected by the disease in the
province and the disease shows signs of being spread from a small
high-risk group to ordinary people. Experts predict that the disease
might reach its peak period in 2007.

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          ��Rights of HIV/AIDS patients spelt out
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          ��HIV/AIDS vaccine still some years away

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