AIDS virus now China's top killer disease

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Updated February 23, 2009 10:59:16

China's Ministry of Health says the AIDS virus is now the nation's top killer disease.

Accumulated figures for AIDS have nearly doubled since the ministry released numbers three years ago. In an attempt to curb the growing crisis China at the weekend launched a national sex education campaign.

Presenter: Kanaha Sabapathy
Speakers: Don Baxter, executive director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations; Joe Amon, Director of Health at Human Rights Watch, Prof Mike Toole, head of the Centre for International Health at the Burnett Institute

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