•         China’s HIV epidemic remains one of low prevalence overall, but with pockets of high infection among specific sub-populations and in some localities. Estimations show that by the end of 2007, approximately 700,000 were HIV positive. The HIV infection rate among China’s population is 0.05 per cent.

•          An estimated 85.000 Chinese have AIDS. Of these 35,000 have been infected thru commercial blood donation and transfusion

•          In 2007 alone : 50,000 new infections and 20,000 deaths.

•          Transmission routes of new infections in 2007: 44.7% sex (hetero); 12.2 % sex (homo); 42% IDU; MTCT 1%

•          Among the living HIV positives, 40.6 per cent were infected through heterosexual transmission.

•          Approximately 32.000 (over 15 years of age) currently on ART treatment.

•           The number of people who have a high risk of exposure to HIV could be 30-50 million: mainly injecting drug users and their sexual partners, sex workers, their clients and partners as well as men who have unprotected sex with men.

•          However there are currently no signs of a generalized epidemic in the country. The Government aims to keep HIV estimates below 1.5 million in 2010.

 Geographic distribution of 2007 estimated cases

Annual reported HIV positives and AIDS cases in China 1985-2007 (as of October 2007)

Data from 2008 KABP survey of over 6000 respondents in six Chinese cities targeting four main groups (white-collar workers, blue-collar workers, migrant-workers and youth):
 

Nearly 30 % did not know how to use a condom correctly.

Only 19 % said they would use a condom if they had sex with a new partner.

Nearly 11% of respondents had had sex with people who were not their spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend during the past 6 months; 42% of those respondents had not used condoms.

30% think HIV positive children should not be allowed to study at the same schools as uninfected children.

Nearly 65% would be unwilling to live in same household with an HIV-infected person and 48% of interviewees would be unwilling to eat with an HIV-infected person.

More than 48% of respondents thought they could contract HIV from a mosquito bite, and over 18% by having an HIV positive person sneeze or cough on them.Around 83% of interviewees had never searched for information on HIV/AIDS.  

［Information last updated: September 2008］

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