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United Press International - November 30, 2005
Among the efforts is a docudrama on HIV/AIDS, inspired by real stories of people living with the disease, which is receiving much public attention, reports the Voice of America. The film will be distributed across China, as an educational tool in the fight against the disease.
"I interviewed many people about HIV/AIDS," said the director of the docudrama. "They all said, 'There is little education, people don't know about this'. A lot of people said 'I am not a person who is sexually active but a few times it was unsafe, so I got contaminated, if I only had known how to prevent it.' So maybe we need to talk about this, because it is urgent."
China says it has 840,000 HIV/AIDS cases among its 1.3 billion people, but experts believe the number is much higher. The WHO says the virus is spreading and estimates 10 million people may be infected there by 2010.
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