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...keeping, it's no surprise that officials here have been collecting and analyzing information on these cases for more than a decade. But access to the data--especially for outsiders--has been carefully guarded. The man in charge of generating the statistics is Dr. Lu Lin, director of the Yunnan Center for Disease Control (CDC), who has been monitoring HIV infection among the highest-risk groups in nearly 50 sites around the province since...
...return, Ho has asked for access to the blood samples--some 24,000--collected from HIV patients throughout the province over the years. The samples will give him critical information about which populations in Yunnan would be suitable as the first subjects for his vaccine trials. "We realized we needed a quid pro quo," he says...
...part of that exchange, Lu's CDC team shared with Ho, in the first presentation of its kind to anyone outside the Chinese government, the details of AIDS penetration in Yunnan. Last March Lu informed Ho that in a 2002 survey of high-risk populations, 43% of IV drug users had shared needles with others in the past month, and that among female sex workers, 89% were unaware of their risk of contracting HIV. A majority of sex workers, about 60%, reported inconsistent condom use. Since they have begun collecting data, says Lu, there has been...
...broaden the scope of his efforts, Ho enlisted the support of the newly appointed director of the province's Bureau of Health, Chen Juemin. Chen, to Ho's relief, is intent on addressing the AIDS epidemic in his province and is eager to have Yunnan serve as a testing ground for programs that Minister of Health Wu in Beijing will consider for the rest of the country. "This situation will not just go away," Chen told TIME. "We probably lost a chance [of controlling AIDS] because we did not open up publicly about our HIV work in the early 1980s...
...MANGXI, YUNNAN...