China Awakens to Fight Projected AIDS Crisis

摘要

An increase in drug use and a boom in commercial sex have led China to the brink of an AIDS explosion. But its historic isolation also gives the country an advantage in testing the latest vaccines. Beijing—China is poised to become the next AIDS battleground. The country has so far escaped the global HIV/AIDS onslaught: The official tallies count only 670 confirmed AIDS cases and 18,143 confirmed HIV-infected people among the 1.2 billion population. But by all indications, the epidemic is about to sweep through the world's most populous nation with a vengeance.