Sexually transmitted diseases were also reportedly on the rise. Most of the non-residents are women from Thailand working in the entertainment business. The public health department reported that it will continue regular checks of people in the entertainment industry and will advise those individuals who test positive to leave. Over the past two years, the pace at which AIDS has been spreading in China has accelerated markedly. The number of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities which have discovered infected people has grown to 28.
Experts believe that a considerable number of infected people are hidden among ordinary people.
Since individual blood donors move from place to place to donate their blood, they have spread AIDS to various parts of the country. In many areas, AIDS-infected people have been discovered among intravenous drug users. The number of AIDS sufferers among people who returned from abroad has increased. Earlier this year, China's Ministry of Public Health ordered state-run medical facilities to stop using a certain brand of serum albumin without giving a reason. Chinese officials have not identified the scope of the contamination and the public health threat, but report about eight tainted lots of the product indicate that as many as 10,000 vials are unaccounted for.