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Associated Press - December 1, 2005
The government's five-year migrant worker anti-AIDS campaign encourages condom use and discourages drug use, which is reportedly on the rise.
Some 120 million migrant workers move around China in search of jobs in big cities, often spending years away from home.
Chinese Central Television showed health authorities at a construction site in Beijing giving condoms out to migrant workers. The men were shown an educational video and asked to fill out a health survey, the television report said.
The official China Daily newspaper said people who contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by sharing infected needles now account for 40% of the country's total infections.
The paper said sales of unclean blood accounted for 23% of AIDS infections, while transmissions through unprotected sex was about 9%. The source of the remaining 28% was not clear, the paper said.
HIV infection rates among prostitutes have risen from two per 10,000 in 1996 to 93 per 10,000 in 2004, the China Daily said.
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