In Japan, the number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infections remains relatively
low; nevertheless, the annual incidence of HIV-1 infection has not decreased. New …

Methods All HIV infections and AIDS patients were from Hebei province, including those
infected through blood transfusion around 1995, that were identified as through general …

Background and Methods We examined the influence of viral load in relation to other risk
factors for the heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). In …

To determine HIV prevalence among blood donors in Zhejiang Province from 1993 to 2004
years, almost 6,600, 000 blood donors information were collected and analyzed. Every …

Background: Little is known about HIV transmission at the family level in China. Goal: We
examined the risks for HIV transmission between husbands and wives and from parents to …

We evaluated the association between HIV-1 RNA copies/mL in men and heterosexual
transmission to their female partners among 493 couples in Thailand. Husbands were …

We report here a novel HIV-1 circulating recombinant form (CRF59_01B), isolated from
three epidemiologically unlinked men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. CRF59_01B …

HIV/AIDS surveillance is conducted in Japan as a part of the National Epidemiological
Surveillance of Infectious Disease, which is in compliance with the Law Concerning the …

BACKGROUND: HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China is
rapidly increasing. The majority of Chinese MSM engage in bisexual behaviors and their …

Greater than 90 per cent of HIV-infected Koreans are men, and therefore the majority of
Korean HIV/AIDS studies reflect the male population. We wished to evaluate the …