BEIJING Andre Silva AC Milan Jersey , Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's central government spent 4.6 billion yuan (694 million U.S. dollars) on HIVAIDS control and treatment in 2016, a health official said Tuesday.
China has established an initial network of preventative services, in which government departments take the lead and the general public also participate, said Wang Guoqiang, deputy chief of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
The network, covering both urban and rural areas, includes HIV testing Alessio Romagnoli AC Milan Jersey , treatment and follow-up observations to prevent infected patients from transmitting the virus, Wang said at the 2017 National Conference on HIVAIDS held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.
Wang, also director of the HIVAIDS prevention and control commission of the State Council, said China has almost entirely prevented the transmission of HIV through illegal blood transfusions, the sharing of needles and mother-to-child transmissions.
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According to official data, China had nearly 420,000 people infected with HIV and 300,000 AIDS patients at the end of June. More than 221,000 people have died of the virus since records have been kept.
Han Mengjie, with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Suso Jersey , estimated up to another 20 to 30 percent of HIVAIDS patients are either not aware of their infection status or have not reported it, warning that the control of HIVAIDS remains a challenge.
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While the government puts emphasis on the HIVAIDS prevention, scientists are seeking breakthroughs in treatment.
Wang Fusheng, an epidemic control specialist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is leading research on immunocyte therapy. Unlike conventional anti-virus treatments, Wang's team are studying immune deficiencies after CD4, a glycoprotein found on the surface of immune cells, becomes damaged.
Patients who have tested the therapy have found their symptoms alleviated or under control within two weeks Ricardo Rodriguez Jersey , their CD4 cell count restored and their weight significantly increased, he said.
CD4 cell count is an index for the health of the immune system. The normal count of CD4 cells stands between 500 to 1,600 per cubic millimeter for a healthy adult. HIV weakens the immune system by damaging functioning CD4 cells.
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PYONGYANG, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) top leader Kim Jong Un attended the 8th Conference of Munitions Industry which was opened here Monday, state media reported Tuesday.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the conference was set to review the achievements and experience in the munitions industry and discuss measures to usher in a heyday of development of the Juche-based defense industry under the banner of simultaneously developing the two fronts.
Juche, meaning self-reliance, is an ideology in the DPRK for achieving absolute independence in political Patrick Cutrone Jersey , economic, military and international affairs.
Simultaneously developing the two fronts is a policy adopted by Kim, which stresses the development of economic construction and nuclear force at the same time, providing a legal foundation for bolstering the nuclear force in the DPRK.
According to the KCNA, Thae Jong Su, politburo member and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea said at the conference that the DPRK's national defense industry has now entered a fresh heyday of its development, thanks to Kim's leadership and policy.
""This became as a historic turning point in putting the DPRK on the position of a matchless nuclear weapons state and hastening the final victory in the showdown with the U.S. and the cause of building a powerful socialist nation Nikola Kalinic Jersey ,"" he said.
Senior officials from the army and the Workers' Party as well as ""contributors to the successful test-fire of ICBM Hwasong-15,"" among others, participated in the conference.
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