The UNAIDS report said infection rates in most Asian nations, with the exception of Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia, remained low. But these figures masked serious epidemics localized in certain communities and districts.
"India's national adult HIV prevalence rate of less than one percent offers little indication of the serious situation it faces," it said, noting that a massive 3.97 million people in the country were infected by the end of last year.
In China, epidemics have broken out among groups including blood donors, IV drug users and sex workers in the southern provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong, it said.
"Unless effective responses rapidly take hold a total 10 million Chinese will have acquired HIV by the end of this decade -- a number equivalent to the entire population of Belgium."
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