Compared to , people diagnosed with HIV in , the number of people diagnosed with HIV infection is more than doubled in China in just a few years. There were an estimated 2. The precise total number of sex workers in China is too sensitive for academic research as the government still treats it as a taboo. In , the United Nations estimated there were four to six million, citing police sources, according to BMC Medicine. The estimate was that there are between four to ten million sex workers in China.
Here is one clear example of the rapid growth trend of STI in China: the gonorrhea infection rate in Zhejiang Province was about 0. And in the same province, the rate of HIV infection was 0. What is particularly worrisome in the trend is the spike of HIV infections among the youth population. According to the data from National Health and Family Planning Commission, the percentage of HIV infections in young students age among all infections in youth has increased from 5.
Also, the sexual transmission was the main route of HIV infection, and This situation among high school and college students is very alarming, as illustrated in the following examples :. However, the HIV infection rate in students was 1.
This means that the chance of HIV infection among students was It is a consensus that this outburst of HIV-infection in schools was correlated to the open sex attitude that is popular among Chinese students nowadays.
Also, media reports revealed that inside or around some university campuses there were underground brothels that procured female students to engage in prostitution services. Blued , the popular social App for the LGBT community in China, had more than 22 million users in , and it aimed to break through 40 million in This clearly suggests that the population of MSM has grown significantly more than 10 million since , with the estimate of the total LGBT population in China at 69 million.
