Chinese Capital Tackles AIDSBeijing is to strengthen its efforts to tackle AIDS, according to a plan issued by the municipal administration in Beijing on May 10.The goal, the plan says, is to keep the number of HIV-positive residents to under 30,000 by the year 2010. The first AIDS patient in Beijing was discovered in 1985. The number reached 44 in 1997, and climbed to 99 a year later. By the end of 1999, the total number of HIV carriers in the city was 444. To date, the Chinese capital has set up 37 AIDS testing centers with a total fund of over 10 million yuan (about 1.2 million U.S. dollars). |
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