From The International Herald Tribune:
China on Wednesday countered the long-held suspicion that it has undercounted the number of people with HIV and AIDS by releasing a new, more extensive survey that found the opposite to be true – that the country has actually overestimated how many people are stricken.
The new survey, conducted with the World Health Organization and Unaids, lowered the country’s estimated number of HIV and AIDS cases to 650,000 from the official 840,000 figure released in 2003. Many experts and AIDS activists have long believed that China had at least 1.5 million cases, possibly far more.