Study on clinical epidemiology of Male HIV/AIDS patients in a tertiary Chinese hospital, Shanghai, China

摘要

Currently, it is estimated that 740,000 people are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in China. In 2011, approximately 28,000 people died from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).2 These numbers must be considered in the context of China's extremely large population, which is estimated to be approximately 1.3 billion. Although China's HIV epidemic remains of low prevalence overall (0.1% among adults), there are pockets of high infection among specific subpopulations, and the danger of the epidemic spreading further into the general population persists.5 This became particularly evident in 2011 when China reported that AIDS had become the country's leading cause of death among infectious diseases for the first time ever, surpassing both tuberculosis and rabies.