From Reuters:
China reported 18,543 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the first half of this year, state media said, near the number for the whole of 2006.
Drug abuse was the main cause of new infections, Xinhua news agency quoted Han Mengjie, an official with AIDS Control Work Committee of the State Council, as saying in a report on Saturday.
Han also warned of the danger of the virus spreading to the general public through unsafe sex and the greater migration of the infected population. [Full Text]
