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AIDS Rate Rises in China

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Government was slow to acknowledge problem.

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China has acknowledged that it has a growing AIDS problem, with the number of officially registered HIV carriers and AIDS patients expected to jump from 346,000 to 780,000 by the end of 2011, according to state media.

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