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AIDS patients receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Li Xin, Anhui Province, China on Nov. 30, 2010. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Although there are some promising developments in China’s HIV response in recent years, China is still a country of concern regarding the resurgence of the AIDS epidemic. According to the PEPFAR Asia Regional Operational Plan 2017, there were 653,865 persons diagnosed with HIV in China in 2016. And in the first quarter of 2018, there were 789,617 persons diagnosed with HIV infection, according to Chinese CDC official data. Compared to 385,817 people diagnosed with HIV in 2012, the number of people diagnosed with HIV infection is more than doubled in China in just a few years. Read More