More Women Suffer from HIV/AIDS in China

More Women Suffer from HIV/AIDS in China
Jun 19, 2007 13:15
LIONPOWER Points: Join Date: Dec 11, 2006 Status: offline	The ratio of men and women among newly reported HIV/AIDS cases in China has surged to 2:1, up from 5:1 in the 1990s, a senior official said on Monday. The number of women sufferers has been rising rapidly since 1985 when China reported its first AIDS case, said Vice Health Minister Wang Longde at a national conference on AIDS prevention for women in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. A total of 203,527 HIV/AIDS cases had been reported by April 30, up from 183,733 by Oct. 31 last year, according to the official. Women accounted for 27.8 percent of all the reported HIV/AIDS cases in 2006, against 19.4 percent in 2000, and more than half of sexual transmission cases, the official added. The total number of cases in China -- taking into account those who are unaware that they carry the HIV virus -- is probably around 650,000, according to estimates by experts from the United Nations and the Ministry of Health. Contaminated needles shared by drug users and unprotected sex are the main causes of HIV transmission in China, according to the Ministry of Health.

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The ratio of men and women among newly reported HIV/AIDS cases in China has surged to 2:1, up from 5:1 in the 1990s, a senior official said on Monday.

The number of women sufferers has been rising rapidly since 1985 when China reported its first AIDS case, said Vice Health Minister Wang Longde at a national conference on AIDS prevention for women in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province.

A total of 203,527 HIV/AIDS cases had been reported by April 30, up from 183,733 by Oct. 31 last year, according to the official.

Women accounted for 27.8 percent of all the reported HIV/AIDS cases in 2006, against 19.4 percent in 2000, and more than half of sexual transmission cases, the official added.

The total number of cases in China -- taking into account those who are unaware that they carry the HIV virus -- is probably around 650,000, according to estimates by experts from the United Nations and the Ministry of Health.

Contaminated needles shared by drug users and unprotected sex are the main causes of HIV transmission in China, according to the Ministry of Health.

Jun 19, 2007 15:09	#1
IAMCANADIAN Points: 196 Join Date: Oct 20, 2006 Status: Offline	i think the whole world should start executing them all so it will stop spreading. i hope the drug users and prostitutes die from aids

Jun 19, 2007 20:10	#2
ZOEY Points: Join Date: Nov 29, 2004 Status: Offline	Iamcanadian. If you suffer from AIDS, you would like to suicide or be executed? It is cruel and not a proper way to deal with AIDS. No discrimination to those people who suffer from AIDS.

Jun 19, 2007 20:49	#3
KEVIN0518 Points: Join Date: Mar 13, 2007 Status: Offline	Sorry, Iamcanadian. I did not mean to offend you.

Jun 19, 2007 21:00	#4
KEVIN0518 Points: Join Date: Mar 13, 2007 Status: Offline	I agree with Zoey. We should not discriminate those AIDS suffers. Now that you execute them, new affected people will appear. Therefore, what we should do is to find other effective ways to handle this problem.

Jun 19, 2007 21:16	#5
IAMCANADIAN Points: 196 Join Date: Oct 20, 2006 Status: Offline	well i diffennitly wouldnt want them around i heard a romour that in some places in china they lock them up at home

Jun 19, 2007 21:18	#6
IAMCANADIAN Points: 196 Join Date: Oct 20, 2006 Status: Offline	the chinese government is starting to teach more about this in school now.i hope they find a cute for this even though that will never happen

Jun 19, 2007 21:24	#7
KENXI Points: Join Date: Mar 27, 2007 Status: Offline	Zoey & Kevin0518, You have expressed admirable thoughts. AIDS is a scourge that can't be "erased" soon enough.

Jun 20, 2007 10:50	#8
LIONPOWER Points: Join Date: Dec 11, 2006 Status: Offline	Till now, AIDS have no better treatment except death, so need special precaution on it. Must to avoid the causes of AIDS.

Jun 20, 2007 22:11	#9
EVENING Points: Join Date: Dec 5, 2006 Status: Offline	Last year when I was still in my university, there were AIDS Day when our school hospital sent us many brochures concerned with introduction of AIDS knowledge.

Jun 20, 2007 23:09	#10
LIONPOWER Points: Join Date: Dec 11, 2006 Status: Offline	Need to implement the knowledge.

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