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Last year, HIV/AIDS became the top fatally infectious disease in China for the first time. According to the Ministry of Health, 44,839 new cases were reported between January and September 2008. UNAIDS, the United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, estimates that 700,000 people were living with the disease in China at the end of 2007, 190,000 of whom need antiretroviral therapy (ART). Fewer than 20 per cent of them are receiving the treatment they need.
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China: International Activity Report, 2007
Apart from HIV, multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) also warrants an urgent medical- humanitarian response in China. It is estimated there are 150,000 drug-resistant TB patients in the country.
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