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...fact that HIV, now regarded in the medical community as a preventable and treatable virus, is a significant and increasing cause of death in China shows that government programs are not reaching enough people, says Schwartländer. In the same government report, released in February, China's Ministry of Health also listed 264,302 diagnosed HIV cases across the nation - nearly double the number in 2005. A lot of that increase is likely due to increased reporting and testing, but UNAIDS still cautions that the statistics reflect only a fraction of disease's real impact...
...decade has been defined by economic growth and social opening, silence still enshrouds many aspects of the nations' sex life, and not, health experts say, without consequences. While most industrialized nations have seen HIV/AIDS death rates steadily decline in the past 10 years, China announced in February that the HIV virus took the lead as the deadliest infectious disease in the nation in 2008, killing nearly 7,000 people in the first nine months of the year. "It's very difficult to talk about sex in schools. It's very difficult to talk about sex in relationships. It's very...
...While that number isn't staggering - UNAIDS estimates that 33 million people are living with HIV worldwide - the potential for things to get worse is alarming. As the world's most populous nation, the upswing in the epidemic is of great concern, Schwartländer says. While HIV/AIDS became a visible public health issue in much of the developed world more than 20 years ago, China did not put real resouces into fighting the disease until 2003. Confronted by the UN's so-called 2002 "Titanic" report, which said China faced an AIDS epidemic of "proportions beyond belief" and compared...
...result, the stigma AIDS carries today in China remains strong - and potentially dangerous. In a 2008 survey by the China AIDS Media Partnership, of the more than 6000 people surveyed, nearly 48% said they wouldn't knowingly eat with an HIV positive person. Thirty percent said HIV positive children should not be allowed to study at the same schools as uninfected children, and 40% said they would not willingly share workspace with a colleague they knew was HIV positive. The government has taken steps to improve these attitudes, including implementing an anti-discrimination law in March 2006, but perceptions like...
...meantime, other social stigmas may also be playing a part in the increasing cases. Together with the government, UNAIDS estimates there are anywhere from 30 to 50 million people vulnerable to HIV in China today, with sex workers, men who have sex with men and intravenous drug users - all communities thought to have higher rates of infection than the general population - facing the highest risk. After the new government numbers were released in February, Zhang Beichuan, a researcher at Qingdao University, told the state-run media that the high number of gay men entering into heterosexual marriages is a contributing...