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April 2002 China Increases HIV Estimate VOA News 11 Apr 2002 08:47 UTC   Chinese officials have sharply increased their estimate of the number of people in their country infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Figures released Thursday estimate that some 850,000 people were infected with HIV at the end of last year. That is 40 percent higher than the previous government estimate. Officials also speculate that there may have been as many as 200,000 cases of AIDS last year. Experts believe more than half of those people already have died. These new estimates differ from the number of confirmed HIV infections in China, about 31,000. Only about 1,600 AIDS cases have been confirmed. Experts say more than two-thirds of the infections are caused by sharing needles during intravenous drug use. About 10 percent more come from illegal blood transfusions. Chinese officials say there is still very little awareness in many towns and villages of how the virus is spread. Some information for this report provided by Reuters and AP.
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