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...Scattered along the drug route is China's largest concentration of heroin addicts. Yunnan has the highest IV-drug-use rates in China, and a recent U.N. AIDS report estimates that anywhere from 50% to 80% of the users are carrying the AIDS virus. HIV spread via unprotected sex is also on the rise here, accounting for 15% of HIV infections in 2000. All told, say health officials in Yunnan, this single province accounts for one-third of China's reported AIDS cases...
...what Ho suspected but could never confirm without the data. Clearly, the few programs that the Chinese had put in place?distributing condoms and educating people about the dangers of unprotected sex?were having little effect on the spread of HIV, and most of the population was still both misinformed and uninformed about how dangerous the virus is. "We all appreciate that the epidemic in China was bigger than our expectations," he says. "We found ourselves taking on issues beyond just our research agenda. We realized that with a few more partners, we could?and should?do more educating, treating...
...country. "This situation will not just go away," Chen told TIME. "We probably lost a chance [of controlling AIDS] because we did not open up publicly about our HIV work in the early 1980s. We didn't realize then that the disease was so serious and could spread so fast...
...Here, unlike in Yunnan, HIV spread not through illegal behavior but through blood donation. In the early 1990s, the Chinese leadership launched a blood drive and paid donors for their plasma. It was a program intended to benefit all Chinese?the poor by giving them a way to supplement their income, and the rest of China by replenishing the national blood banks' dangerously low stocks. "It was like a poverty-relief program," says a Henan resident who gave plasma in 1993 and became infected. Through campaigns in the villages and schools, the government encouraged rural farmers and factory workers...
...protect itself from damage. And so at 12:39 p.m., the electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president...