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The prevention of venereal diseases faces big challenges in China. Because of social discrimination, treatment of the disease is excluded from the medical insurance system, affecting many patients who need medical care."

Yang Bin, director of the Guangdong Provincial Dermatology Prevention Center, commented at a meeting recently in Guangdong province. He also said that syphilis should receive attention as well. More than 4,000 Guangdong residents were reported to be infected with syphilis from 2004 to 2013. Most patients live in the Pearl River Delta.