Publications - Released in 2010
Since acknowledging the HIV/AIDS epidemic, significant efforts to understand the epidemic in China have been undertaken resulting in a comprehensive policy response based on those understandings. From 2003 onwards, China has implemented ambitious treatment, prevention, and control programs, and significant resources to combat HIV/AIDS have been allocated, resulting in increased government infrastructure and capacity. Many successes have occurred since 2003; however, new challenges are emerging, and many previously identified challenges remain and continue to evolve. Although the research effort into properly understanding HIV/AIDS in China continues to expand, it is necessary to translate scientific findings into public health programs, which can be implemented nationwide. China does not yet have the luxury of complacency in its response to HIV/AIDS. This special edition of the AIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes presents research into these new and continuing AIDS challenges.