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China: Rise in AIDS, HIV Cases

by Colleen Fleiss on Sep 30 2018 1:41 AM

At the National Conference on HIV/AIDS in China's Kunming city, National Health Commission official, Wang Bin, said that about 80.4 per cent of HIV/AIDS patients in China had received anti-virus treatment by 2017 end.

China: Rise in AIDS, HIV Cases
The number of people living with HIV and AIDS in China has seen an increase of 14 per cent, revealed sources.
By June end, there were 8,20,756 living with HIV and AIDS -- an increase from 7,20,000 since June 2017.

Figures from the commission showed that by June, a total of 2,53,031 people in China had died of the virus ever since it was first discovered.

However, the number of HIV infections caused by blood transfusions have essentially been reduced to zero, Xinhua news agency said.

Source-IANS


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