China’s HIV Infection Rates Shoot Up Among Seniors

What’s new: China’s population of seniors living with HIV more than doubled from 2015 to 2019 and had a higher rate of new diagnoses than in the U.S. or Europe, a recent study showed.

The number of people 60 or older with newly reported HIV infections shot up to 37,275 from 17,451 over those five years, according to a study published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology on Nov. 17. While that number fell over the next three years, it remained elevated at just over 27,000 last year.