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Saturday, September 7, 2002

China's HIV time bomb

China's numbers are growing as Chinese officials acknowledge the magnitude of the problem. A year ago, the official estimate for the number of Chinese people infected with HIV was 600,000; a few months ago it was increased to 800,000. 

Now the head of the Chinese Ministry of Health's Disease Control Department says around a million people are HIV carriers.

International organisations like the United Nations believe that is still an underestimate, and that China has an enormous problem on its hands.

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