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Beijing Reports One Death from AIDS

An AIDS sufferer died in Beijing last week, the Beijing Health Bureau confirmed Friday.

 

Statistics from the bureau show that Beijing has 3,142 HIV carriers and AIDS patients in its 18 districts and counties, 313 of whom are cases discovered in the first six months of the year.

 

The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Chinese capital has grown by an average of 40.6 percent each year since 1998, according to Guan Baoying, deputy director of the bureau's Disease Prevention and Control Department.

 

The deadly virus which first spread among drug abusers, sex workers and homosexuals is now appearing in the general population, Guan said.

 

Most of the HIV carriers and AIDS patients in Beijing are aged between 20 and 49, the official said.

 

Guan said that 36.7 percent of people living with HIV and AIDS are drug abusers, 34 percent were infected through sexual contact and the others contracted the disease through blood transfusions and other causes.

 

(Xinhua News Agency August 28, 2006)

 

 

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