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The changing face of HIV in China

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HIV has advanced from high-risk groups such as intravenous drug users to some in the general population, according to comprehensive new data from the south of China. What needs to be done to halt its spread?

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Figure 1: Pervasive spread.
Figure 2: Changing trends.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by National Basic Research Program (also called 973 Program) of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology to L.Z. (2006CB504200) and by the Tenth Five-year Key Technologies R&D Programme of China:2004BA719A14-1, 2004BA719A14-2. We also thank Mark Goldin for helpful suggestions.

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  1. Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yunnan, People's Republic of China

    Lin Lu, Manhong Jia, Yanling Ma & Li Yang

  2. AIDS Institute, The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

    Zhiwei Chen

  3. Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

    David D. Ho

  4. Comprehensive AIDS Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    David D. Ho

  5. National AIDS Reference Laboratory, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    Yan Jiang

  6. AIDS Research Center, State Key Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    Linqi Zhang

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Correspondence should be addressed to L.Z. (lzhang07@hotmail.com or jiangyan03@263.net). L.L. and M.J. contributed equally to this work.

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Lu, L., Jia, M., Ma, Y. et al. The changing face of HIV in China. Nature 455, 609–611 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455609a

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