AIDS Over Asia.

• Author: Ayres, Ed
• Position: Statistics, health care policy - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

An international conference on HIV/ AIDS held in Hong Kong in late December 2000 strongly confirms the findings reported in the January/February issue of WORLD WATCH, which went to press two weeks earlier. The WORLD WATCH article ("AIDS Has Arrived in India and China," by Ann Hwang) noted that "Without decisive action, ... 10 million people in China could be infected with HIV by 2010." At the 7th Western Pacific Conference on Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases in Hong Kong, Dr. Yiming Shao of China's National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control repeated this prognostication without the same qualifier. "Our best scientific guess," he said, "is that by 2010 we will have 10 million cases."

Confidence in the efficacy of decisive preventive action, or at least in the kind of action...