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Ticking Time Bomb
- In China, according to some foreign health workers,
the number of AIDS cases is increasing at a rate of 30% annually.
- Following the usual pattern, the disease is spreading fastest among
China's intravenous drug users and among an estimated 4 million to 10 million
sex workers, most of whom don't insist their clients use condoms.
- Beijing economists estimate that more than 200
million rural laborers are drifting into the cities looking for jobs that
simply aren't there.
- Beijing is reluctant to enforce AIDS awareness with the zeal it applied
to the one-child policy or new capitalism. Officially, prostitution and drug
addiction don't exist, so having officials go around to the brothels handing
out condoms to the girls is unthinkable.
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