{"id":59698,"date":"2023-11-08T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/08\/more-people-living-longer-with-hivaids-in-china-figures-show"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:28:05","slug":"more-people-living-longer-with-hiv-aids-in-china-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59698","title":{"rendered":"More people living longer with HIV\/Aids in China, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported cases have risen more than 7,000% in the last 20 years on the back of better treatment and testing, though mortality rate has gone up<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of HIV\/Aids in China has surged in the past 20 years, as improved treatment means people are living longer with the disease, according to official data.<\/p>\n<p>Figures published in October by China\u2019s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that between 2002 and 2021, the prevalence rate of reported HIV\/Aids cases rose from 1.09 per 100,000 people to 79.62, an increase of more than 7,000%. Improved treatment as well as better access to testing have contributed to the soaring prevalence rates, even as the mortality rate for HIV\/Aids also increased for much of that period.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/08\/more-people-living-longer-with-hivaids-in-china-figures-show\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported cases have risen more than 7,000% in the last 20 years on the back of better treatment and testing, though mortality rate has gone upThe prevalence of HIV\/Aids in China has surged in the past 20 years, as improved treatment means people are li&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[791,41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aids-and-hiv","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59699,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59698\/revisions\/59699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}