Migration and Gender in China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic

M. Giovanna Merli; Jack DeWaard; Feng Tian; Sara Hertog

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7_3

Migration and Gender in China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic

M. Giovanna Merli, Jack DeWaard, Feng Tian, Sara Hertog

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Abstract

China today is considered to be a low HIV prevalence country. In 2007 there were an estimated 700,000 HIV cases corresponding to 0.1% of the adult population. HIV infections tend to be concentrated in relatively well-defined population subgroups, such as injecting drug users (IDUs), former plasma and blood donors, and female sex workers (FSWs) and their clients. Despite this low HIV prevalence, the Chinese HIV epidemic is considered to be in the stage of “rapid spread” (Grusky et al. 2002; Qian et al. 2005 cited in Hong and Li 2008), and concerns about a growing epidemic through heterosexual contact persist. Injecting drug users and former commercial blood and plasma donors currently comprise about 55% of all infections, while 44% of infections are among female sex workers, their clients and partners.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	27-53
Number of pages	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7_3
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
Volume	22
ISSN (Print)	1877-2560
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-1990

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Keywords

Female Migrant
Male Migrant
Risky Sexual Behavior
Sexual Activity Class
Sexually Transmitted Disease

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Migration and Gender in China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic. / Merli, M. Giovanna; DeWaard, Jack; Tian, Feng et al.
Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2009. p. 27-53 (Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis; Vol. 22).

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Migration and Gender in China’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic

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