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Using WHO statistics, in 2012 the number of people living with HIV was growing at a faster rate (1.98%) than worldwide human population growth (1.1% annual), [2] and the cumulative number of people with HIV is growing at roughly three times faster (3.22%). The costs of treatment is significantly increasing burden on healthcare systems when ...
The first recorded death in China due to AIDS was a male Argentine-American [18] tourist and California resident who died in Beijing on 6 June 1985. [19] The Chinese government focused initially on preventing foreigners from transmitting the disease to its citizens, viewing it primarily as a consequence of a Western lifestyle.
A state-owned enterprise of China (Chinese: 国有企业) is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. As of 2017, China has more SOEs than any other country, and the most SOEs among large national companies.
In 2004, the United Nations Theme Group on HIV/AIDS in China released a report estimating that somewhere between 850,000 and 1.5 million adults in China were infected with HIV as of 2001. [ citation needed ] In 2007, Chinese health officials estimated that only 740,000 adults were infected with HIV; however, three years later, Gao estimated ...
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council. It was founded in 2003 through the consolidation of various other industry-specific ministries. [ 1 ]
Name; area Deaths Causes Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6]15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation.
The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1]
The U.S. had executed 1,283 people via lethal injection as of April 2017. [10] The number of people executed annually in China is thought to surpass all other countries combined, though the actual number is a state secret, [ 11 ] and the percentage of people killed via lethal injection and the other method of execution used there, firing squad ...