Chen Zhu, Minister of Health: AIDS prevention and control will be included in health reform implementation plan
At 15:12 on February 20, 2009 Xinhuanet
Health Minister Chen Zhu said on the 19th in Kunming, AIDS prevention and control will be included in the five focus on the reform of medical reform in the country to implement programs of public health services.

Chen Zhu, Yunnan Province, are leading cadres in the forefront of the knowledge era seminar entitled "AIDS on the social and economic development impact and the current challenges and responses" seminar revealed the above information.

Introduce him to the end of 2008, China reported a total of 276,300 cases of AIDS cases, of which 82,000 were AIDS patients; cumulative report of 38,100 cases of death.

Chen Zhu said that China's AIDS epidemic at the global level is a low prevalence in different populations overall HIV infection rate was 0.05%.

According to the Ministry of Health with the World Health Organization Joint Research results show that by the end of 2007 China to have HIV-infected people and 700,000 patients. Disease reporting and outbreak analysis shows that the country now has about 410,000 infected people are unaware of their infection status.

Chen Zhu said that in recent years, governments at all levels attach great importance to AIDS prevention and control work, the central and local funding for AIDS prevention and control inputs year after year growth, in 2008 the central funds earmarked 950 million yuan into AIDS, the local government to raise AIDS funds invested a total of 6 billion, prevention and control work noticeable progress has been made, add the number of infected persons substantially reduced. China's AIDS epidemic outbreak showed an increase has slowed, sexual transmission has become the main route of transmission, geographical distribution of the AIDS epidemic vary, pop factor is still widespread and so on.