AIDS is one of the most harmful and devastating infectious diseases in human history. The difficulty in defeating AIDS lies in its rapid spread and wide spread, and humans still lack effective treatment and prevention methods, including drugs and vaccines.

The wave of transmission cannot be stopped

On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that five healthy gay men in the Los Angeles area were suffering from carcinogenesis. Cysticercus pneumonia (PCP). In fact, they are suffering from AIDS, and PCP is just a secondary disease of AIDS.

Since then, HIV-infected people have spread across 6 continents, with a total number of more than 70 million.

AIDS is an unstoppable trend in Africa. By the end of 2002, the number of infected people in Africa was estimated to be nearly 50 million. Several African countries where the AIDS epidemic is most severe have experienced economic collapse and sharp population decline. In Botswana, 38.8% of adults are infected with HIV. In the past period, the country could not find enough young adults to serve in the military; in Uganda, an eastern African country, 1.8 million people out of a population of 20 million have been infected by AIDS. Taking away their lives, they left behind 1.7 million orphans.

Now, the wave of AIDS has moved to the Asia-Pacific region, where its second peak is forming.

On September 1, 2003, the 59th Annual Meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific was held in Bangkok, Thailand. The report provided by the meeting stated that the Asia-Pacific region may replace sub-Saharan Africa and become the global AIDS epidemic. It is a new epidemiological center. Currently, there are a considerable number of HIV carriers and HIV-infected persons in the world in this region; the main affected population is between the ages of 15 and 49.

Now, someone in Asia is infected with HIV every 30 seconds. In 2002, there were 1 million new infections. The number of infected people in India has exceeded 10 million, making it the country with the largest number of AIDS patients in the world; almost all HIV-infected families in Indonesia have been reduced to abject poverty.

The first imported AIDS patient was discovered in my country in 1985. By the end of 2002, the cumulative number of reported HIV carriers in the country had exceeded one million, spread across 23 provinces and cities, including young adults aged 20 to 39. Accounting for 80% of the number of infections. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of HIV infections in my country in 2001 increased by 58% compared with 2000, and in 2002 it increased by 32% compared with 2001. Even a relatively conservative estimate shows that by 2010, the number of people infected with HIV in my country will exceed 10 million, and the losses caused by the AIDS epidemic will be no less than 22.5 billion yuan. The World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked China second in Asia and 14th in the world for the number of HIV infections. However, in the face of all this, the Chinese public does not seem to pay enough attention.