{"id":19332,"date":"2019-02-21T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19332"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:53:07","slug":"is-china-facing-another-hiv-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/is-china-facing-another-hiv-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China Facing Another HIV Peril?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/02\/19\/hiv-aids-china-700x420.jpg\" alt=\"AIDS patients receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Li Xin, Anhui Province, China on Nov. 30, 2010. (STR\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AIDS patients receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Li Xin, Anhui Province, China on Nov. 30, 2010. (STR\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although there are some promising developments in China\u2019s 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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pepfar.gov\/documents\/organization\/272008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016.<\/a>\u00a0And in the first quarter of 2018, there were 789,617 persons diagnosed with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sohu.com\/a\/245866630_775892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIV infection<\/a>, according to Chinese CDC official data.\u00a0Compared to 385,817 people diagnosed with HIV in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pepfar.gov\/documents\/organization\/272008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012<\/a>, the number of people diagnosed with HIV infection is more than doubled in China in just a few years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/is-china-facing-another-hiv-peril_2807286.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Although there are some promising developments in China\u2019s HIV response in recent years, China is still a country of concern regarding the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}