Wu Huifen/Taipei reported that the number of AIDS notifications among Chinese people has grown astonishingly. In May alone, the number of people reporting AIDS surged at a rate of 8.4 per day. Last year, the increase was 77% higher than that of the previous year. shared needles. Hope Workshop stated that Taiwan has grown at an annual rate of more than 15% in the past three years, which has exceeded the so-called "serious growth" regional standard of the United Nations. If no countermeasures are considered, the situation may become more serious.
According to statistics from the Department of Health, as of the end of May, the number of reported HIV infections in Taiwan had reached 8,569, an increase of 254 in the last month alone, with an average daily increase of 8.4 cases. This does not include the "black numbers" that have not been reported.
According to public health research, the number of unreported AIDS "black numbers" is usually 5 to 10 times the reported number, and the total number of AIDS infections in Taiwan may approach 70,000 to 80,000 people.
According to the CDC data, in the past three years, the number of AIDS infections in Taiwan has indeed skyrocketed. In 1992, the number of infected people was 861 (accumulated 5,253 reported cases), and in 1993, there were 1,521 cases (accumulated reported 6,774 cases). The increase is as high as 77%, five times higher than the United Nations definition of 15%.
This year, the situation is even more serious. As of the end of May, 1,282 new HIV-infected people have been added in 5 months, accounting for more than 85% of the number of people notified in the previous year, and the daily increase rate is 8.4.
" The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further analyzed the reasons. Among the new cases in May, 1/4 of the new HIV infection cases were drug addicts. The analysis was caused by sharing needles. However, the public knows the route of sexual transmission, although part of the infection The reason for the surge in numbers, but not the main reason. (It's not caused by sharing needles, they are not so stupid? These officials are advocating sharing needles every day to cause infection, so they will not share, but caused by drug use, if the officials They say drug use can cause AIDS, who will take drugs? Wrong medical concepts lead to wrong advocacy, so the number of people who get AIDS is constantly rising.)"
To this end, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in cooperation with the Administration of Controlled Drugs, plans to launch "harm reduction therapy" in July to provide less toxic oral drugs to drug addicts who are difficult to quit heroin and reduce their chances of sharing needles However, this measure has raised doubts about the supply of drugs to the public, and it remains to be seen whether it can be implemented smoothly.
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"The reason for this is that the number of drug addicts in Taiwan has increased. People can know from this figure how serious drug abuse is in Taiwan. AIDS."
