So, how is AIDS mainly spread in my country?

The Chinese public believes that sexual contact infection is the number one cause of AIDS transmission. A survey conducted in Beijing also showed that 54% of the respondents believed that the vast majority of AIDS patients were infected with the virus due to unclean sex or prostitution. As long as they clean themselves and take care of themselves, they will not be infected.

However, statistics from my country's health authorities show that the proportion of HIV transmission routes in my country are: intravenous drug use infections account for 69.8%, sexual contact infections account for 6.9%, blood collection and supply infections account for 6%, The remaining ten percent is caused by mother-to-child transmission and other special ways of transmission.

Some professionals who are in contact with and treat AIDS patients on the front line of clinical practice believe that the main way of spreading AIDS in my country is not sexual intercourse and drug use. For example, Gao Yaojie, a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who is known as the "first person to prevent AIDS" in China, believes that the main way to spread AIDS in my country is through the sale of blood or the use of blood and blood products. She said that she had traveled to more than a dozen counties and hundreds of townships, sometimes as many as seven villages a day, and that all the AIDS patients she saw were infected by selling blood. In addition, Gao Yaojie analyzed the letters sent to her by more than 4,000 AIDS patients or people infected with the virus across the country and concluded, “From what I have seen and heard, it can be said that the vast majority of domestic AIDS patients are from "Blood-borne transmission."

Gui Xien, a professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Wuhan Zhongnan Hospital, believes that he has seen AIDS patients through blood sales, sexual contact, drug abuse, and mother-to-child transmission. , but looking at the situation across the country, the main ways of transmitting AIDS are different in various regions and cannot be generalized. He said that in central areas, such as Henan, Hubei, Shanxi and other provinces, the spread is mainly through blood sales and blood transfusions, while in coastal areas such as Guangdong and Fujian, it may be mainly through sexual contact, while in Yunnan and other places It may be mainly spread through drug use.

But Gui Xien said, “From a long-term perspective, the problem of blood-transmitted HIV can be intervened through administrative means. For example, the state has announced that it will allocate 1.25 billion yuan to control blood stations and medical blood. , if the governance is effective, then the problems of drug abuse and sexual transmission of AIDS may emerge, but intervention for the latter two is far more difficult than for the former. ”

What are the main ways in which AIDS is transmitted? A large-scale epidemiological investigation should be carried out to provide strong evidence for effective prevention and control. Otherwise, a vague understanding of the main transmission routes will inevitably lead to ineffectiveness and ineffectiveness of prevention methods.