By Hou Ye
This week, China’s State Council published its 12th Five Year Action Plan of China HIV/AIDS Control, Prevention and Treatment. The new plan lays out an assessment of HIV/AIDS in China and government strategy to combat the epidemic.
The plan states that sex has become the main vector of HIV transmission and that the epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased significantly. Spousal transmission has also increased. In the areas lacking
prevention of mother-to-child transmission efforts (PMTCT) are not conducted, the rates of mother-to-child transmission are high.
