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Source: Women Of China
 
More than 85 percent of new cases of HIV and AIDS in Guangdong Province resulted from unprotected sex, a senior health official has revealed.
 
The figure has risen sharply from 57.4 percent just two years ago, and is well up on the 37.6 percent of 2008, according to the Guangdong Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
"The steady growth in HIV and AIDS is a serious threat," said Lin Peng, head of its HIV/AIDS prevention center.
 
He called for measures to help slow the spread.
 
Guangdong, which borders the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, recorded 1,708 new cases of AIDS in 2012, a year-on-year increase of 12.1 percent, and 4,746 cases of HIV in 2012, up 10.2 percent.
 
"About 17 percent of AIDS victims detected in the previous year were citizens aged over 50. That figure has steadily grown every year since 2007," Lin said.
 
He said more than 60 percent of the province's HIV and AIDS patients were drug addicts or homosexual men infected through intravenous injections or blood transfusions before 2009.
 
From 1986 until the end of June, Guangdong reported 12,736 registered AIDS patients and 36,763 HIV carriers. More than 10,000 have died.
 
More than 80 percent of new cases were found in Yangjiang, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Dongguan and Yunfu.
 
Wang Longde at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, previously a vice-minister of health, said sex is now the major channel for the spread of HIV and AIDS on the mainland, taking over from blood transfusions and illegal drug use.
 
He urged authorities to improve AIDS prevention awareness among residents to combat the spread nationwide. More…
 
04/10/2013
 
Source: Deutsche Welle
 
DW: You are part of a global initiative, Education First. Is it exciting for you to be part of this initiative?
 
Lang Lang: It's absolutely great. As a UNICEF ambassador I started working with the United Nations almost 10 years ago. […] Today they even invited this incredible girl from Pakistan, Malala [Yousafzai], and she also made an incredible speech to inspire the youth in the world to care about child poverty, the horrible wars and also girls' rights, so it was very inspiring to hear that.
 
What is your personal message for this initiative?
 
I hope that music and art will go back into many of the public schools where they have been cut out for a while. I hope that, as a musician, we will communicate with other great musicians and synergize our passion for music to inspire the newer generation to open their hearts in music and art. Hopefully then music and art will give a wonderful boost to our general education as well.
 
Tell me more about your personal experience with education. In what regard did it change your life?
 
There are a few things in different areas. As a UNICEF ambassador I went to Africa and I saw really poor kids there who are suffering from malaria and AIDS and obviously that is a different issue than the problems in the western or Chinese public schools. So in that area the most important thing is to get a malaria shot and also to try to prevent getting AIDS and HIV.