The Ministry is lending ears to all walks of life including the HIV infected, looking for room to improve the regulations.

The main reason behind the lowered figures is that the number of AIDS/HIV patients infected through blood selling and homosexual activity was over-estimated in 2003.

Every day China has 200 newly infected people. We should say the situation is still very serious.

Almost 200 people are infected every day in China. The situation is grave.

Some localities fear that reporting a rise in reported cases will damage their political standing and local economic development, and they're unwilling to expand testing. And certain areas won't even truthfully report cases.

We have an obesity epidemic, with more than 20 percent of our 7-17 year old children in urban centers tipping the scales as either overweight or obese.