Publication Date:
2000-08-05
Description:
Official tallies count only 670 confirmed AIDS cases and 18,143 confirmed HIV-infected people among China's 1.2 billion population. Now changing social mores, including an increase in drug use and a boom in commercial sex, combined with a tainted blood supply, have led China to the brink of an AIDS explosion. But its historic isolation also gives the country an advantage in testing the latest vaccines, as the different strains of HIV have not yet commingled there; China's well-developed public health infrastructure could also help facilitate clinical trials.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Normile, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jun 30;288(5475):2312-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10917825" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
AIDS Vaccines
;
*Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/economics/epidemiology/prevention & control
;
China/epidemiology
;
Clinical Trials as Topic
;
Disease Outbreaks
;
Humans
;
Prostitution
;
Public Health/education
;
Research
;
Research Support as Topic
;
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/epidemiology
;
Substance Abuse, Intravenous/epidemiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink