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[quote=MARRIE,299100]The assault is advancing on several fronts. So far, the greatest losses have occurred in the southern Yunnan province, where HIV has followed heroin across the borders from Burma, Laos and Thailand. The first victims were drug users, who contracted the virus through needle-sharing. Now heterosexual contact is spreading HIV through Yunnan's ethnic communities. Meanwhile, free markets and open borders have brought AIDS to China's burgeoning coastal cities. In the island province of Hainan, where prostitutes crowd the palm-lined streets, the reported incidence of sexually transmitted diseases rose more than 170-fold between 1984 and 1994.

In the past, what was dangerous in Hainan might have been safer in Shanghai. But as China grows more mobile, regional problems become national ones. In recent years, an estimated 120 million peasants have fled rural villages to seek work in the cities and on the roads. And as Africa's experience makes clear, rootlessness is itself a risk factor for AIDS. Unskilled migrants sustain the sex trade, both as buyers and sellers. Their venereal infections go untreated, leaving them doubly vulnerable to HIV. And those with the virus continue to support themselves, whether by selling sex or by selling blood.

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