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	China must 'move quickly' to control spread of HIV

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Health experts are optimistic that China can control the spread of HIV, but the country must "move quickly" because "the situation could worsen rapidly," Bates Gill of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Susan Okie, a contributing editor of NEJM, write in a NEJM perspective piece.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iolhivaids.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=1592&fArticleId=3815672"><DIV>
 Among new HIV cases in China, 48.6% are caused through injection drug use, 49.8% through sexual contact and 1.6% through mother-to-child transmission, according to Connie Osborne, a Beijing-based senior adviser to the World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS care and treatment. The country is undergoing rapid social and economic change - including migration from rural to urban areas and increases in commercial sex work and drug use - Gill and Okie write.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iolhivaids.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=1592&fArticleId=3815672">experts "remain cautiously hopeful about China's chances of controlling its [HIV/AIDS] epidemic,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iolhivaids.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=1592&fArticleId=3815672">"Success, however, will depend on how well the government handles challenges."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D59F921D-B4DC-4C1C-905C-F651D020813A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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