HIV and AIDS remain a major public health problem and cause of death in China, with more than a million people reportedly having HIV at the end of 2020, according to a recent report. In the past decade, China’s HIV infection rates have increased significantly for men of all age groups, with a growing prevalence among Chinese youth. The study “Research Progress in the Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in China” (pdf) was published by China CDC Weekly on Nov. 26, authored by He Na, professor of epidemiology and dean of the School of Public Health at Shanghai’s Fudan University. The study indicates more than 1.05 million people in China reported having HIV at the end of 2020, while the cumulative deaths were 351,000. The proportion of heterosexual and homosexual transmission increased from 48.3 percent and 9.1 percent in 2009 to 74.2 percent and 23.3 percent in 2020, respectively. And the standardized …