Beijing, Jan 22(ANI): An official publication on Saturday revealed that a total of 28,000 people died of HIV/AIDS in China last year, and another 48,000 were found newly infected.
China's Ministry of Health, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization together created the report.
According to the report, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS augmented by 40,000 in last two years from 2009, while cases of fresh infections lingered at a low level.
The total infection rate of the country is 0.058 percent and 780,000 people are alive with HIV/AIDS throughout the country, which includes 154,000 AIDS patients, the Xinhua reported.
The report suggested that the major causes for the surge in the number of AIDS patients on record are mounting government efforts in prevention and intervention of the disease, which helped reduce deaths in the patients, as well as some long-infected HIV carriers showing symptoms.
More than 136,000 AIDS patient had received anti-virus treatments by September 2011, bringing the treatment rate to 73.5 percent - an increase of 11.5 percentage points compared to 2009.
Reports also indicated that the outbreak situation of HIV/AIDS is presenting a few new trends, as imported and sexually transmitted cases keep escalating. (ANI)
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