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"Mobile men with money may be spreading
AIDS"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(03/08/05)
IT IS feared well-off and mobile business people in
China's largest cities may be contracting and spreading HIV/AIDS – and many
do not even know they are infected.
Figures are sketchy but “mobile men with money,” as experts have dubbed the
group, are a growing concern as the country battles to halt the epidemic.
“There is an emerging division in the business. There's starting to be
people who work on mobile men with money,” said Tim Manchester, director of
Futures Group, a private organisation that focuses on preventing the spread
of HIV/AIDS.
What HIV/AIDS professionals are wondering – as are doctors at disease
control centres and hospitals in Shanghai – is whether mobile men with money
will prove to be a gateway for the disease into large cities.
“That's everybody's concern, that it's a bridge population.
“We are not seeing that yet because the testing is not there yet,” said
Manchester.
A possible scenario is that of a businessman who does not use condoms and
even pays extra for a prostitute who ignores the risk but who is infected.
He becomes infected and then passes the infection to his wife, who goes on
with her life unaware of the disease she is carrying. — China Daily
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