{"id":51,"date":"2005-08-02T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/08\/02\/epidemic-of-aids-in-china\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T19:24:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T00:24:24","slug":"epidemic-of-aids-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/08\/02\/epidemic-of-aids-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemic of AIDS in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a92\"><\/a>  AIDS in China a potential epidemic? Here is a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/economist.com\/world\/asia\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4223578\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Economist<\/span><\/a> which provides mixed new:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px\">SURELY China does not face a general AIDS epidemic? The government says that only 0.07% of the general population is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and, unlike some other governments&#8217; figures, this one may be an overestimate.<\/div>\n<p>However, the trends look more worrying from a different perspective:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px\">First, it has spread to every province (see map) and half the counties within them. Second, the number of reported cases is growing (chart 1, with map) and, since 85% of those infected do not know they are HIV-positive, the growth will continue. Third, among certain groups, the infection is present in alarming proportions (chart 2). Fourth, even a low prevalence rate, such as the WHO&#8217;s bottom-of-the-range 0.05%, means 650,000 infections; the government&#8217;s rate translates into 840,000.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIDS in China a potential epidemic? Here is a story in The Economist which provides mixed new: SURELY China does not face a general AIDS epidemic? The government says that only 0.07% of the general population is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and, unlike some other governments&#8217; figures, this one may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}