The number of new HIV cases reported "so far this year" in Shanghai is about 10 percent higher than the 1,800 recorded for the whole of last year, the city's AIDS prevention and control commission said in a press release yesterday.
About 70 percent of the cases involved gay men, who are now considered the group most at risk of contracting the virus, the release said, without giving a detailed breakdown of the figures.
About 10,000 gay men have been tested for HIV this year, up from 8,000 in the whole of 2014, it said.
The commission did not say what it was doing to encourage people from high-risk groups to be tested, or what plans it had to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS among the general public.
The number of new cases of HIV and AIDS reported across China last year rose 15 percent from 2013 to 104,000, according to the China Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control.
China is among the world's top 15 in terms of the number of people living with HIV, and the incidence among young men has been growing rapidly in recent years, the association said earlier.
