How the AIDS menace hits Asia

How the AIDS menace hits Asia

* In August, China admitted it was facing a "very serious" AIDS epidemic with HIV cases up by two thirds in a year.

* In Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, HIV infection rates among sex workers and their clients increased to more than 20 percent in 2000 from virtually nil in 1996.

* Indonesia recorded a jump in HIV among sex workers to 26 percent in three geographic areas from six percent previously. There were also outbreaks of the virus among injecting drug users around the country.

-- The AIDS Pandemic Network