AIDS in China, about 700,044 people infected do not know their
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Today is the first of 21 World AIDS Day. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health informed that as at September 30, the cumulative report of the 264,302 cases of AIDS cases, according to the Ministry of Health and other units of the AIDS epidemic in China is estimated that the existing Chinese infected with HIV and about 700,000 patients, which may be 44 People do not know that they have been infected.
 
 
Survey data
 
65% of the respondents do not want to Ai were stained with the same room
 
The latest survey data show that China's section of the public discrimination against AIDS patients remains. 30% of the respondents believe that children infected with AIDS should not be with other children in the same school; close to 65% of the respondents do not want to AIDS-infected people living with the room.
 
Ministry of Health AIDS prevention and disease control bureau Deputy Director Wang Zhen, according to the health sector is estimated that 440,000 people may not know that they have been infected. Such a situation because of fear of being discriminated against and not dare to accept the check, afraid to expose themselves.
 
86.3 percent of urban counties report AIDS cases
 
Wang Zhen, China's AIDS epidemic in the overall low prevalence, and a specific group of people in some areas of high prevalence of the situation. Although the AIDS epidemic rise has slowed, but sexual transmission has become a major route of transmission. Male homosexual men and sexually transmitted in 2005 accounted for only 0.4 percent in 2007, accounting for about 3.3 percent, the proportion of infections on the rise significantly.
 
At the same time, China's AIDS epidemic in different geographical distribution, January to September this year, a total of 86.3 percent of the counties reported AIDS cases, the report ranked the number of cases before the six provinces, the total number of cases across the country accounts for about 80%, respectively Yunnan, Henan, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Guangdong, Sichuan.
 
Initiatives
 
Leading cadres would be on course to Fight AIDS
 
Wang Zhen, said the next step, the Government will increase the more the disease, such as rural and remote areas and the floating population, young people and other key AIDS education; continue to strengthen the work of behavioral intervention and increase in sex workers and MSM crowd The intervention efforts to expand the coverage of interventions; second-line drugs to improve the accessibility, and gradually expand the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS.
 
In addition, we must further strengthen the leading cadres at all levels of policy advocacy and training, AIDS prevention and control will be included in the curriculum at all levels and Party School of Administration of the training.
 
All the provinces to set up AIDS prevention and control institutions
 
Ministry of Health Bureau disease control office of anti-Ai, in 2008 China's AIDS prevention and treatment of a more robust mechanism, the country's 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and 88% in the key state and county governments have set up AIDS prevention and leadership; at the same time "Four Frees and One Care" policy has been to increase the coverage, as of the end of Sept. 2008, over the age of 15 AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral treatment by the cumulative total of 5.3 million people, the treatment of a total of 1144 children.