id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-014927-g4r7j8hk Shao, Yi-ming AIDS research and its role in China’s AIDS prevention and control policies 2008-01-13 .txt text/plain 666 41 60 Since then, the government has been increasing investment in science and technology with major emphasis on both infectious diseases control and new drug research and development. For the first time, development of 100 new drugs and control of major infectious diseases (AIDS, HBV, TB and other emerging infectious diseases) have been selected as national key scientific projects. The epidemic in China began at the end of the 1980s, when IDUs in Ruili, a small town bordering Myanmar in Yunnan province, were found to be infected by HIV. By the mid 1990s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was scaled-up by both further spread of drug abuse in other regions and blood contamination in the illegal plasma collection activities in central China (13, 14) . HIV infected people were first identified in Intravenous drug users in China Control of transmission of HIV among drug users and commercial blood donors ./cache/cord-014927-g4r7j8hk.txt ./txt/cord-014927-g4r7j8hk.txt