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China reports 264,000 people living with HIV/AIDS.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Beijing, 30 November: A total of 44,839 people living with HIV/AIDS were found in China and 6,897 others died of the disease in the first nine months this year, the Ministry of Health said on Sunday [30 November].

The ministry said 264,302 people in the country were reported to have contracted HIV, including 77,753 AIDS patients, by the end of September, while 34,864 people died of AIDS.

"The spread of AIDS has generally slowed down in China, but factors for widespread still remain in some areas," Wang Weizhen, deputy director of the HIV/AIDS prevention and …

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