After failing for months, if not years, to come publicly to grips with a fast-growing problem of hiv and AIDS, Chinese health officials on August 23rd pulled their heads out of the sand, at least partially. Talking to reporters in Beijing, the vice-minister of health, Yin Dakui, acknowledged that China is "facing a very serious epidemic" and admitted that negligence by provincial and local-level officials had contributed to the spread of the disease.
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