AIDS Prevention

China's health minister says efforts lagging

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 2nd, 2002

With one million Chinese infected with the AIDS virus, China's health minister says prevention work is lagging and has issued an urgent call for more trained health workers, state media reported in November 2002.

AIDS in China has entered a "critical epidemic level" and is spreading from people considered most at risk - such as intravenous drug users and prostitutes - to the wider population, Zhang Wenkang was quoted saying in the English-language China Daily newspaper.

"We now have no time to lose," Zhang said.

The minister's remarks, delivered at a weekend conference organized jointly with the U.S. government, indicated...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-12-02)

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