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The Associated Press - Friday, July 9, 1999
About two-thirds of the people infected with HIV are drug addicts living in rural areas, although the number of sexually transmitted cases is increasing, the Yangcheng Evening News said in a report seen Friday in Beijing. It said some 83 percent of HIV carriers were men and that more than half were in their twenties.
The total number infected represents 0.03 percent of China's population of 1.2 billion. That's about one-tenth the rate of infection that exists in the United States, where 820,000 people out of a population of 271 million are infected -- or about 0.3 percent -- according to United Nations figures.
As of last September, the Health Ministry had confirmed only 11,170 carriers of HIV nationwide. But the total number of AIDS carriers was estimated to have climbed to more than 400,000, about about .14 percent of the U.S. population, up from the earlier reported figure of 300,000.
Earlier reports in the state media have said the number of HIV carriers in China could reach 1 million by 2000.
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