This essay is an overview on some ethical issues about the AIDS epidemic in China. The population groups affected are foreigners and people who came back from foreign countries.
Sexual transmission is responsible for only a small percentage of cases, but is increasing rapidly.
China has a very large population, about 1200 million. The proportion of HIV positive persons is very small. So some Chinese officers have said that there are not dangers of an AIDS epidemic in China, so we need not do things to control the AIDS epidemic. Through intravenous drug use and unprotected intercourse, Chinese people who are living in the bounds of China have been infected. Another important reason is that following the economic expansion and open door policy there is a great change of sex behaviour in China and there are some increasing population groups with unsafe behaviour.