[Photo/VCG] The expansion of HIV testing has resulted in an increasing number of people with the virus being detected in China, but about 30 percent of all people living with HIV are not detected yet, a top health official said on Tuesday. China provided about 200 million HIV tests last year, twice as many as in 2012. As a result the number of new HIV cases reported annually rose from 82,000 in 2012 to 135,000 last year, Wang Hesheng, vice-minister of health, said at an event ahead the World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec 1. Han Mengjie, chief for AIDS/HIV control and prevention at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that due to delay in getting tested, about one-third of new HIV cases in China reported every year are already AIDS patients, which means they may have lived for many years with HIV before being identified. Testing and diagnosis can bring health benefits to people living with HIV, and benefit the spread and prevention of HIV. Han called on people who are more likely to contract HIV, such as men who have sex with men or those who have more than one sex partner, to get tested voluntarily in local centers for disease control and prevention or certified hospitals to protect themselves and others. Jiang Chu, director of the Haidian Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Beijing's Haidian district, said the center has installed 23 vending machines that sell HIV test kits in 13 universities in the district since 2016, so those who suspect they have HIV can get tested in anonymity without having to worry about their privacy. A target set by the United Nations requires that by 2020, 90% of people who are infected with HIV will be diagnosed. rainbow rubber braceletsanimal shaped bracelets rubbermake your own silicone bracelet kitwholesale custom wristbandsembossed printed wristband
Przewalski's horses graze at the acclimatisation enclosure in the early morning hours at the Takhin Tal National Park, part of the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, in south-west Mongolia, June 23, 2017. [Photo/VCG] Fifteen Przewalski's horses, the world's only surviving subspecies of wild horse, were released into a nature reserve in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Sept 27, as part of efforts to protect the rare subspecies from extinction. The group includes six stallions and nine mares, and for the first time researchers released five horses over 20 years old, equivalent to a person aged 70 to 80, according to Zhang Hefan, chief engineer of the Wild Horse Breeding Center based in Xinjiang. In the past, we selected only among the young and strong horses, usually between 0 and 13 years old, because old animals were more likely to die in the wild, she said. But the center's researchers believed that it is time to try again, since a stable natural population has formed in the wild thanks to years of preservation efforts. We have 221 horses in the wild now, accounting for half the population of the center. We believe the environment has become more supportive to help the old ones survive, she said. Protection of Przewalski's horses dates back to the 1980s. The wild horse is believed to be even rarer than the giant panda, since its current population worldwide is estimated at about 2,000. Native to China, the animal was on the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature from the 1960s to 1996. Then it was reassessed as critically endangered due to successful reintroductions. China imported 18 wild horses in 1985 from a number of countries and built a wild horse breeding center for their preservation. The center now has 411 wild horses. Since 2001, the center has started to release wild horses into the Kalamaili Nature Reserve in Xinjiang, which spans more than 1.7 million hectares. The horses are first put into a 200-hectare enclosure so they can adapt before beginning to live in the wilderness. Living in natural habitats will help enlarge the gene pool and improve its ability to survive, Zhang said.
