Progress made in HIV/AIDS campaign
By Shan Juan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-11-25 08:05
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Nearly 75 percent of the 216 children who attend primary school in Lulou village, Anhui province, are HIV-positive or were orphaned when their parents died of AIDS. Many Anhui villagers were infected when they sold their blood illegally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wu Fang / for China Daily |
Latest official estimate shows slower rate of increase on the mainland, Shan Juan reports in Beijing.
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