China becoming ‘like Africa’ with AIDS scourge

Oh great. A raging illness in the world's most populous country.

AIDS in China has spread beyond high risk groups such as injecting drug users, prostitutes and homosexuals and the country was becoming ‘like Africa’ in how the virus is transmitted, a senior health official says.

‘There are 190 new HIV infections every day ... and one percent of all pregnant women in China are infected,’ said Hao Yang, deputy director general of the bureau of diseases prevention and control at the Ministry of Health.

‘That is a very high percentage. It is a generalised epidemic,’ he told Reuters in an interview.

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