中国青年感染艾滋病人数上升

 　　中国青年感染艾滋病人数上升

        BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The share of young people around the age of twenty in all HIV infections in China almost doubled from 2008 to 2012, with male-to-male sex as the prominent contributing factor, a senior health official has said.

　　"Among all HIV cases reported across the country last year, 1.7 percent were Chinese youths aged¹ between 15 and 24, up from the 0.9 percent in 2008, and the number of infected college students keeps rising," said Shang Hong, director of the HIV/AIDS key lab under the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

　　Revealing the figures at a promotional activity on Saturday for the World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec. 1, Shang added that 95 percent of the infected in the group were boys, and 70 percent of these infections were through male-to-male sex.

　　Arie Hoekman, the United Nations Population Fund's representative in China, said previously² about 40 percent of new HIV/AIDS infections every day around the world are people aged between 15 and 24.

　　In an earlier report, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed legal and scientific prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, calling on the public to jointly³ eliminate discrimination and help provide timely and effective treatment and support for HIV carriers and AIDS patients.

1 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

2 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

3 jointly   

ad.联合地，共同地

参考例句：

• Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
• She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。