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本刊在1998年第2期介绍了WHO最近发表的全球AIDS监测中HIV感染者和AIDS患者在全球不同地区的数量分布,本文介绍上报的AIDS患者中男性的比例、诊断时的年龄分布。 应该指出,在分析这方面资料时,必须考虑到许多因素。首先这些取自不同国家监测系统的资料在质量上有很大差异,这给在国际间进行比较带来局限性,因为有些国家上报AIDS的人数不及实际患者的10％,有些国家则超过90％。
In the second issue of 1998, we introduced the recent WHO population distribution of HIV infection and AIDS in the global AIDS surveillance in different parts of the world. This article describes the reported proportion of men with AIDS and the age distribution at diagnosis. It should be pointed out that many factors must be taken into account in the analysis of this information. First of all, the qualitative differences in the quality of these data collected from different national monitoring systems have created limitations in comparison internationally, as some countries report as less than 10% of actual patients as compared to more than 90% of actual patients in some countries, .