Beijing : AIDS deaths are believed to be peaking in China, especially among the large number of people infected with HIV in the infamous "blood-selling" schemes in 1990s, a senior Chinese health official has said.
The total reported number of AIDS deaths had reached 68,000, by the end of last year, Hao Yang, Deputy Director of the disease prevention and control bureau at the Ministry of Health said at the launch of the Tsinghua-Janssen Public Health Day yesterday.
In fact AIDS has become the country's top infectious killer claiming the lives of 7,700 people in 2010 alone, official China Daily quoted him as saying.
The AIDS deaths are mainly from thousands of farmers who took part in government schemes in 1990 for blood donation for monetary gains. PTI
