Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice-Premier Wu Yi, who also serves as the health minister, marked World AIDS Day Monday by meeting with AIDS patients at Beijing's Ditan Hospital, December 1, 2003. Wen became the first Chinese premier to shake hands with AIDS patients. China has reported 840,000 HIV/AIDS cases, among which 80,000 were AIDS patients. Despite the low prevalence rate nationally, the epidemic spread to 31 provinces of the country. [Xinhua]

A model hands out condoms during an event to promote awareness of AIDS in Xi'an, the capital city of China's northwest province of Shaanxi, on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2003. [newsphoto.com.cn]

Migrant construction workers read leaflets with information about AIDS  prevention, after they were handed out by officials from the Beijing Center for Disease Control at a construction site in Beijing on World AIDS Day Monday Dec. 1, 2003. [AP Photo]

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