From China Daily:
The number of new HIV/AIDS cases reported in Beijing in the first half of the year was almost as high as the total for 2006, a spokesman for the Beijing Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control said Thursday.
Guan Baoying, deputy director of the association, said 563 new cases had been reported in the first six months, taking the total in the capital to more than 4,200.
The number of new HIV/Aids cases being reported in Beijing has been growing by an average of 50 percent a year, he said. [Full Text]
