China has 200 million migrant (Chinese) workers, of which more than 120 million work in cities. The remainder work in towns. China is at a key stage in its fight against AIDS/HIV. A report from the International Labor Organization estimates that China could lose five million laborers by 2015 if it doesn't take effective measures to address the grave problem.
(Xinhua News Agency January 27, 2007)
Not until 1998 did China have a national, long-term plan to combat HIV. The notion of condom ads was quickly shot down by the Chinese government after an ad played one time on the national television network in 1999. Condoms were viewed as illegal sexual tools by China’s State Administration of Industry and Commerce and were banned from the airwaves. That ban persisted until 2001 when the Chinese Ministry of Health reclassified condoms as “medical devices” instead of a sexual commodity. Still, condoms are not an acceptable part of mainstream China, they are in short supply and are of poor quality.
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China is estimated to have about 700,000 HIV/AIDS cases, with tens of thousands of new infections each year, the government said Thursday, but activists warned the problem was far greater. "The result of estimates is that at the end of 2007, China will have about 700,000 HIV/AIDS cases, and 85,000 with AIDS," Health Minister Chen Zhu told a press conference in Beijing. Chen said there were an estimated 50,000 new HIV infections in 2007, when 20,000 people died from AIDS, figures he described as a slightly better than previous years. ... But independent AIDS activists have long warned that these figures underestimate the rampant spread of the disease. Read more at http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_says_estimated_HIVAIDS_cases_rise_to_700000_999.html
(Xinhua News Agency January 27, 2007)
Not until 1998 did China have a national, long-term plan to combat HIV. The notion of condom ads was quickly shot down by the Chinese government after an ad played one time on the national television network in 1999. Condoms were viewed as illegal sexual tools by China’s State Administration of Industry and Commerce and were banned from the airwaves. That ban persisted until 2001 when the Chinese Ministry of Health reclassified condoms as “medical devices” instead of a sexual commodity. Still, condoms are not an acceptable part of mainstream China, they are in short supply and are of poor quality.
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China is estimated to have about 700,000 HIV/AIDS cases, with tens of thousands of new infections each year, the government said Thursday, but activists warned the problem was far greater. "The result of estimates is that at the end of 2007, China will have about 700,000 HIV/AIDS cases, and 85,000 with AIDS," Health Minister Chen Zhu told a press conference in Beijing. Chen said there were an estimated 50,000 new HIV infections in 2007, when 20,000 people died from AIDS, figures he described as a slightly better than previous years. ... But independent AIDS activists have long warned that these figures underestimate the rampant spread of the disease. Read more at http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_says_estimated_HIVAIDS_cases_rise_to_700000_999.html
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