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AIDS/HIV up 29%
December 7, 2012, Friday
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HANGZHOU has reported 679 new cases of HIV/AIDS so far this year - an increase of almost 29 percent on the same period last year.
The first case of HIV was recorded in Hangzhou in 1985, and up to November 25 this year a total of 2,958 HIV/AIDS cases had been reported in the city.
Nearly 98 percent of new cases this year were contracted through sexual contact.
The current rate of HIV/AIDS infection is severe and prevention work difficult, said Fang Jianguo, vice director of Hangzhou Health Bureau.
Figures showed that 27 students and 77 people over 50 have been diagnosed with the disease this year. These numbers are well up on last year's figures, when 14 students and 54 people aged over 50 were diagnosed.
Among the 27 students, 23 contracted HIV/AIDS through gay sex, with the remaining four people becoming infected through heterosexual sex.
Some 76 percent of the infected people aged over 50 contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.
The first case of HIV was recorded in Hangzhou in 1985, and up to November 25 this year a total of 2,958 HIV/AIDS cases had been reported in the city.
Nearly 98 percent of new cases this year were contracted through sexual contact.
The current rate of HIV/AIDS infection is severe and prevention work difficult, said Fang Jianguo, vice director of Hangzhou Health Bureau.
Figures showed that 27 students and 77 people over 50 have been diagnosed with the disease this year. These numbers are well up on last year's figures, when 14 students and 54 people aged over 50 were diagnosed.
Among the 27 students, 23 contracted HIV/AIDS through gay sex, with the remaining four people becoming infected through heterosexual sex.
Some 76 percent of the infected people aged over 50 contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.
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