Yesterday, the Ningbo Center for Disease Control's public Weibo account posted an article titled, “Crying Wolf?- The AIDS Epidemic Amongst Students in Ningbo.” The article says that in 2014, more than 30 Ningbo students were infected with AIDS. The students were mostly college students and more than 80 percent of the cases were spread through sexual contact between men. The number of HIV positive patients is increasing in China: in 2014, national reports showed 2082 new cases of HIV infection over a period of 10 months, an increase of 59.1 percent from the previous year.
Source: inews.qq.com
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I was laughed at when i expressed concern about the possible re-use of needles in Chinese hospitals, especially when the blood sample was taken during the compulsory medical exam.: basic hygiene was not employed. Reusing medical equipment without proper sterilization is probably seen as 'saving money' without thought to health consequences. Of course AIDS will be seen as a 'foreign' import because of course AIDS/HIV/Hep B did not exist before foreigners came to China. nothing of course to do with poor hygiene or basic sex ed. ignorance.
Mar 15, 2015 20:29 Report Abuse
HIV/AIDS isn't solely spread through sexual intercourse or drug users. I lived in China for three years, had a monogomaous relationship, yet contracted HIV via a routine dental procedure, most likely from the lack of proper sterilization of the instruments. China's biggest problem is proper attention to clean, safe medical and dental procedures that reduce the risk of spreading HIV/AIDS to other patients. The safe goes for Africa. This explains why rates in Western countries for HIV/AIDS transmissions are extremely low from transfusions and more from sexual promiscuity and/or intravenous drug usage. Worse, the stigma in China regarding HIV/AIDS is horrendous. My status was revealed when doing my medical examination for the Z-VIsa, and rather than notify me directly, the hospital notified my employer which resulted in my immediate termination. As a hardworking, contributing visitor, my status meant I would no longer be able to receive a VISA lasting longer than 6-months; I was refused treatment at dental offices and other Chinese places when I RESPONSIBLY disclosed my status for the safety of the nurses/doctors and for other patients. China has a very long way to go in coming to terms with HIV/AIDS. While they are not alone (of course, stigmas are everywhere) I would at least expect the medical community to be the example to others that people can carry on a normal life with HIV.
Mar 15, 2015 00:52 Report Abuse
You nailed it. The majority of mainlanders have no respect for other people's property or privacy. Years ago in china, if someone who knew you (in your early 20s, single, physically striking) saw you and your bf walking in a park, the person would actually call your office boss up and told him about it, and your boss would grill you. A local told me that. She also said she had a close-call herself when she wrapped her arm around her older brother's on the street, and got spotted. She also confirmed my observation on the status of doctors in china when I asked her how respected doctors were in china. 'Not particularly', she said. Now, many doctors are good ones and care for their patients. No, not because they were unethical, rape their patients, or anything like that. It was because a human life (out of 1.3+ billion) is cheap, valueless in most cases. Your doctor was probably following some protocal, written or unwritten. In China, few would voluntarily tell their colleagues/friends they contracted HIV/AIDS. The next to nil moral standard here + low value of a human life + promiscuity = sex disaster. China has the highest number of hepatitis B patients for decades if I remember correctly. So, in a reverse/perverse way, this lack of respect for privacy works to protect those who haven't contracted whatever, because the irresponsible low lives would never tell (face thing, being fired..etc.). The other side of the coin, however, is that god knows how many were/are framed by the low lives around them. Many things in this primitive, perverse country are upside-down of developed/civilised societies. The good news is, I think the cure for cancer and/or hiv/aids is getting closer everyday. I feel safe to bet it would be within the next 5 years, i.e. before 2020.
Mar 15, 2015 10:10 Report Abuse
'The number of HIV positive patients is increasing in China..' Soon they can also brag, 'China surpassed South Africa as the country with the largest number of AIDS patients!' It may actually have, if their 'face' permit them to release the real figures.
Mar 14, 2015 10:36 Report Abuse
No, no, no....they are gay because their girls were snapped up by evil, $poor, uneducated, uncivilised shit-on-the-streets laowais holding a valueless passport!!! (Ooopps, this is china, nearly forgot the face thing. Of course it has nothing to do with their dumping their newly born girls into toilets under the single-child policy. The whole world knows it is impossible those highly evolved mainlanders could do something as cruel and ruthless as that for decades!!!)
Mar 14, 2015 10:54 Report Abuse
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