China and HIV — A Window of Opportunity

Chinese and international health officials express optimism about controlling the HIV–AIDS epidemic but emphasize the need to move quickly. Bates Gill and Dr. Susan Okie explain that, given China's enormous population, even a small increase in prevalence could be devastating. Bates Gill discusses the largely rural HIV epidemic in China, the turnaround in the central government's approach to HIV–AIDS, and the remaining obstacles to controlling the epidemic. Gill is a China scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.