【China Times Newsletter】
Huang Tingyu/Taipei report The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Department of Health announced yesterday the statistics of HIV-infected people of their nationality last year. In 1993, there were 1,513 new HIV-infected people, breaking the thousand mark for the first time.
The increase rate reached 76%; the number of newly infected females was 112, which also exceeded 100 for the first time. "Intravenous drug addicts" infected with AIDS surged, with 446 new cases last year,
It is six times the number of new cases in the previous year, and has become a major worry in Taiwan's AIDS prevention and control.
According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Department of Health, there were 1,513 new nationalities infected with HIV in 1993, breaking through 1,000 for the first time, and 859 people in 1992.
Seventy-six percent long. The accumulative number of AIDS-infected persons of Taiwan nationality has reached 6,762, of which 93.06% are men and 6.94% are women. The ratio of men to women has changed from the past
15 to 1, raised to 12.5 to 1.
Cai Shufen, head of the AIDS Prevention Team of the Department of Health's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that analysis shows that intravenous drug addiction has become the fastest-growing risk factor for AIDS infection in Taiwan. According to hygiene
According to the statistics of the Administration, before the 1990s of the Republic of China, the number of drug-addicted HIV-infected persons found every year was single digits.
An increase of 446 cases a year. Cumulative drug addicts accounted for 8.92% of all HIV-infected people from the original 2%.
Cai Shufen said that about 70% of the new intravenous drug addiction cases that have been grasped so far come from various prisons, that is, when they are caught taking drugs, they may be screened out and pass the test.
report. In other words, if these drug addicts had not been discovered, they probably would not even know they were infected with AIDS.
Intravenous drug addicts have become a large number of new HIV-infected people in China. Chen Yimin, director of the AIDS Prevention and Research Center of Yangming University, said with concern that the number of drug users is growing and widespread.
If the government does not actively intervene in the correction of the needle-sharing behavior, by the end of this year, the number of new cases of drug addicts alone may exceed 1,500, following in the footsteps of Thailand. Chen Yimin
"Point out that the problem of AIDS infection among drug addicts is not a sudden occurrence. (Readers believe me, these drug users know not to share needles, it is drugs that cause love"
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Comment
"This again proves that what I said is correct. People infected with AIDS are caused by drug use, not by sharing needles. As long as readers don't use drugs, they will not have AIDS. Don't you guys?"
"Be afraid, these are the most common tricks played by rotten western medicine factories. Every once in a while they will remind the public, lest everyone forget the existence of AIDS, and they will have no money to make."
