According to the official data, the number of patients in Yunnan, Guangxi, Henan, Xinjiang, Guangdong, and Sichuan provinces represent 80% of the total infected.

“Currently we are performing pharmacentical tests among some 7,000 patients from 15 provinces. One of the drugs was approved by the state, and the others are still undergoing experiments”, said Wang Weizhen, Deputy Manager of the AIDS Prevention and Treatment Department of the Ministry of Health.

According to another research conducted by China Preventive Medicine Association and Beijing Chaoyang District Disease Control Center, till the end of 2008, the chance of male homosexual partners being infected with the disease will reach 9.31%.

To be honest, I don’t have a clear idea what the above numbers mean to me. But I know what the people infected with the disease are facing in their daily life.

I remember 2 years ago when I was watching an underground documentary (please refer to the picture below) telling the story of a rural family in Henan Province where the wife died from AIDS because of medical misplay during her blood transfusion. A great number of villagers trade their blood for money at disqualified medical institutions at the time. The story of the family in the documentary are just a fraction of the whole picture. I still recall the moment when the father wept at her dying wife while kept whipping off flys on her face…

I don’t mean to be negative about what the government and the public is trying to deal with the problem. I’m just trying to be perfectly honest about my perception of it. The media is not open and impartial (though improving) as you may have imagined ( and it’s not perfect in any country), I’m just emphasizing that the real situation is way more dangerous than what the official figures indicate. One tip, the real population in China is higher than the official figure due to the “Hukou” policy. You may live as a human being in this country, but you may not be recorded as one if you don’t have “Hukou”…

We just have more to deal with than what we have imagined!