AIDS Epidemiology

China facing HIV/AIDS disaster of 'unimaginable proportion,' U.N. warns

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 25th, 2002

Ten million people in China could contract the AIDS virus by the end of the decade, pushing the country toward a potential disaster of "unimaginable proportion," according to a new United Nations report.

"China is on the verge of a catastrophe that could result in unimaginable human suffering, economic loss and social devastation," the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said in the study, entitled HIV/AIDS: China's Titanic Peril. "Indeed, we are now witnessing the unfolding of an HIV/AIDS epidemic of proportions beyond belief, an epidemic that calls for an urgent and proper - but currently unanswered - quintessential response."

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