Students at a primary school in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,
display their hand-made red ribbons "an international symbol of
AIDS awareness" yesterday on the eve of World AIDS Day. China had
650,000 HIV carriers, including 75,000 AIDS patients at the end of
last year, according to the government estimates.
A worker reads an AIDS prevention brochure during an "HIV/AIDS
Awareness Program" at a construction site in Beijing on the eve of
World AIDS Day November 30, 2006.
A worker holds a pack of free condoms during an "HIV/AIDS
Awareness Program" at a construction site in Beijing on the eve of
World AIDS Day November 30, 2006.
A drug addict (R) gets a cup of methadone which is used to ease
drug addiction inside a local hospital in Nanjing, east China's
Jiangsu province November 30, 2006. Thirty-seven percent of HIV
infections were caused by drug users sharing contaminated needles
and 28 percent were caused by unprotected sex, according to Hao
Yang, deputy director of the ministry's Bureau of Disease Control,
Xinhua News Agency reported.
Pupils line up to form an anti-Aids symbol during an HIV/AIDS
awareness rally at a primary school in Hefei, east China's Anhui
province November 30, 2006. The number of reported HIV/AIDS cases
in China has jumped by nearly 30 percent to more than 183,000 so
far this year, according to the Health Ministry which said the
virus seemed to be spreading from high-risk groups to the general
public.
(China Daily December 1, 2006)
