About time!
China wakes up to the AIDS threat
The willingness of China's government to enlist the help of NGOs like the Clinton Foundation and Safe Blood is a sign that the Communist leaders understand the choice they face. The potential for HIV to spread in China is obvious. The country has 1.3 billion people, a thriving sex industry, a relatively backward health-care system, and a culture that makes it especially hard for many gay people to come out of the closet.
"You can go the Western route, keeping HIV under 0.5%, or you can go the Africa route, where some countries are pushing 40% of the adult population," says Busch. "The problem is there's not a lot of in-between. China has woken up to that." Beijing still needs to do a lot more, of course, but there's reason to be hopeful that the world's biggest country is now serious about stopping the spread of HIV.
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...or you can go the India route and not give a shit that 60% of all HIV cases in S/SE Asia belong to India. Indian century my ASS.
I'm not bitter. Really. But yes, good for China, they'll thank themselves for not pulling another SARS.
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