Number of Chinese with AIDS virus rising
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BEIJING The number of people contracting the AIDS virus in China is rising and infections are spreading from high-risk groups such as drug users to the general population, according to a study released Tuesday.
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China's capital  is to install 1,000 new condom vending machines to fight the spread of HIV and Aids.
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China should be praised for its efforts to fight AIDS, and some of its actions can set an example for other countries, an international team of researchers said on Thursday.
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EVERY day about 14,000 people contract the HIV virus worldwide - more then half of them are aged between 15 and 24. There are now thought to be about 38 million people infected with HIV, and rising.
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PARIS  - The murderous advance of AIDS was commemorated around the world in pledges, appeals, processions and concerts, but the day was stamped by China&#39;s warnings about its exposure to the epidemic.
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Although Singapore has one of the lowest levels of HIV infection in Asia, the number of new infections hit a record high with 257 cases reported in the first 10 months of this year, more than the 242 new cases reported for all of 2003.
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A hundred thousand pamphlets on HIV/AIDS prevention and control were recently distributed to local officials throughout China, the first time the country has extensively spread HIV/AIDS knowledge to local leaders.
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China has for the first time introduced laws specifically targeting the spread of Aids and outlawing discrimination against victims of infectious diseases.
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An attack on AIDS in China through foreign and domestic programs, has departed markedly from an earlier reluctance to face the danger to the country's 1.3 billion people.
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China reported 18,543 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the first half of this year, state media said, near the number for the whole of 2006.
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The number of people living with HIV has reached 39.4 million people worldwide - with high increases reported from EU&#39;s neighbouring Russia and Ukraine, according to an annual AIDS report.
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Chinese health authorities have pledged to do more to prevent babies being infected by their mothers with the HIV virus during delivery.
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The number of HIV infections in Malaysia could surge by more than fourfold to 300,000 by 2015 as the virus spreads rapidly from high-risk groups to the general public, a senior health official warned Sunday.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus  infection is growing more rapidly in women  than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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China plans to treat another 20,000 to 30,000 AIDS patients next year with free anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy, a senior health official said.
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China has made it illegal to buy and sell blood in an effort to stem the country&#39;s growing AIDS epidemic, the first time the disease has been targeted in a law, state-run media reported Monday.
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Alarmed by the growing number of AIDS patients, China will conduct nationwide HIV testing within the next six months of people with blood selling history in the 1990s to detect the virus at an early stage.