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HIV rates rise in Chinese women

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China is planning to increase its focus on women in the fight against HIV/Aids, due to a sharp rise in the rate of female infection, state media has said.

In the 1990s the male to female ratio of HIV/Aids infection was 5:1, but the figure is now closer to 2:1.

In some areas, there are now a similar number of women as men infected, the China Daily said.

The new focus on women is part of a government initiative marking World Population Day.

"The number of women infected with HIV/Aids is climbing," Wei Jian'an, an official with China's Aids Prevention and Treatment office, told the China Daily.

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