Volume 15, No 11, Nov 2005
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 15 Issue 11, November 2005: 865-869
COMMENTARY
Injection drug use and HIV/AIDS transmission in China
Tian Xin CHU1 and Judith A LEVY2
1Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, 16 Hepingli Middle Street, Beijing 100013, China
2University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, 1603 West Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612 USA
Correspondence: Tian Xin CHU(chutx@bjcdc.org)
After nearly three decades of being virtually drug free, use of heroin and other illicit drugs has re-emerged in China as a major public health problem. One result is that drug abuse, particularly heroin injection, has come to play a predominant role in fueling China's AIDS epidemic. The first outbreak of HIV among China's IDUs was reported in the border area of Yunnan province between China and Myanmar where drug trafficking is heavy. Since then drug-related HIV has spread to all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. This paper provides an overview to HIV/AIDS transmission through injection drug use in China. It begins with a brief history of the illicit drug trade in China, followed by a discussion of the emergence of drug related AIDS, and a profile of drug users and their sexual partners who have contracted the virus or who are vulnerable to infection. It ends by summarizing three national strategies being used by China to address both drug use and AIDS as major health threats.
Cell Research (2005) 15, 865–869. doi:10.1038/sj.cr.7290360
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