Related News
Home » Metro » Health and Science
Half of city's new HIV carriers are gays
By Lu Feiran |
November 30, 2011, Wednesday
|
Online Edition
Online Edition
Most of the newly reported HIV carriers and AIDS patients in the city are men aged between 25 and 44, the Shanghai Public Health Bureau reported this morning.
About 82 percent of this year's newly confirmed HIV carriers got infected through unprotected sex and half of them are gays whose percentage is increasing each year, officials said.
The percentage of HIV carriers infected through intravenous drug injection has decreased by nearly 20 percent from last year.
Local hospitals also gave treatment to six pregnant women to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, and no newborns were found infected with HIV this year, said the bureau officials.
Shanghai registered 1,294 new HIV carriers, 509 AIDS patients and 64 AIDS-related deaths this year up to November 25.
About 82 percent of this year's newly confirmed HIV carriers got infected through unprotected sex and half of them are gays whose percentage is increasing each year, officials said.
The percentage of HIV carriers infected through intravenous drug injection has decreased by nearly 20 percent from last year.
Local hospitals also gave treatment to six pregnant women to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, and no newborns were found infected with HIV this year, said the bureau officials.
Shanghai registered 1,294 new HIV carriers, 509 AIDS patients and 64 AIDS-related deaths this year up to November 25.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
