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IntroductionCompared with western countries, China started to provide free medicine for AIDS patients years later, which leads to the late emergence of problems on health service demands of AIDS long‐surviving patients with non‐AIDS‐related diseases. Government hasn't laid enough stress on it.Materials and MethodsThe interviews and questionnaire surveys are conducted and analyzed to get information. The interviewees include 81 AIDS long‐surviving patients in three villages and several hospitals in Shangcai, Zhumadian, and 18 AIDS‐related decision makers and health service providers.ResultsThere are 79 long‐surviving patients out of 81. 58 patients have non‐AIDS‐related diseases. 21 patients get hypertension and 28 get HCV. 100% patients have been to the clinics with their real‐name IC cards for minor illness. 43 patients have been transferred to assigned hospitals at the county level. Seven have the experience utilizing health services in the municipal or provincial assigned hospitals. The problem is on accessibility. 40 patients hope to get more convenient and cheap health services. Among them, 37 say the kinds and the amount of medicine in village clinics are not adequate. Seven give up because of the expensive treatment expense. For 21 patients with hypertension, 3 buy medicine at the county‐level hospitals. The other 18 choose to buy at private pharmacy. For 28 patients with HCV, 3 are not aware they actually got HCV. Free hepatic protector medicine is provided at village clinics. Up to 11 patients have not taken any treatment for HCV.ConclusionsPatients with hypertension go to the private pharmacy for medicine instead of higher level hospital because of lack of medicine in clinics, far distance from hospitals, cumbersome procedures in hospitals, limited dosage of prescriptions and too little discount. The situation for patients with HCV is even worse. It is predicted 70% of AIDS long‐surviving patients have HCV. The treatment is expensive and out of pocket. And free liver‐protection medicine does not work sometimes. Some patients working outside their home town do not want to reveal their health situation to get free medicine. The elderly with multiple co‐morbidities need more caring. Government should expand the scale of free medicine. Hospitals need to improve medicine plans and assist on medicine purchase. For patients, attitude decides everything.

In our article, we conduct an empirical analysis utilizing a 5-year panel data sourced from the China Family Panel Studies. Our findings indicate that elevated housing price exert a significantly adverse influence on fertility decisions, with observed heterogeneity that is more pronounced among urban-dwelling families, those without property rights, those with existing children, and females aged between 31 and 40. Following the relaxation of the family planning policy, this negative effect becomes notably more pronounced. These conclusions remain robust with IV estimation. Considering the underlying mechanisms, the impact of high housing prices extends beyond a mere crowding-out effect on fertility through consumption. It also serves to motivate females to enhance their education, diminishes their self-identity, raises the cost of child-rearing, and exerts an inhibitory effect on marriage. Collectively, these factors further amplify the adverse impact of housing prices on the fertility rate.

At the beginning of 2020, the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 posed a huge challenge to the governance capabilities of public health in various countries. In this paper, the SEIR model is used to fit the number of confirmed cases in each province in China, and the reduction rate of the basic reproduction number is used to measure the actual score of the control effect of COVID-19. The potential capacity of prevention and control of epidemics, in theory, is constructed, and we use the difference between theoretical ability and actual score to measure the ability of governance of public health. We found that there were significant differences between actual effect and theoretical ability in various regions, and governance capabilities were an important reason leading to this difference, which was not consistent with the level of economic development. The balance of multiple objectives, the guiding ideology of emphasizing medical treatment over prevention, the fragmentation of the public health system, and the insufficiency of prevention and control ability in primary public health systems seriously affected the government's ability to respond to public health emergencies.

The Guangzhou Twin Registry is a population-based registry of twins residing in Guangzhou City. The initial registry database included 9,700 pairs of young twins recruited from the Official Household Registry of Guangzhou City. The registry is designed to provide a resource to identify the genetic and environmental causes of common diseases with an initial focus on eye diseases. From 2006 onward, phenotype and DNA collection have been completed for more than 1,200 twin pairs and their parents or siblings. Most of the young twins have come back for an annual examination of the progressive traits, such as refraction, ocular biometry, weight, and height. Genome-wide association scans have been completed recently. This article gives an update of the study design, cohort profile, previous findings, and future directions. Results from the Guangzhou Twin Project may contribute to the understanding of gene-environmental interplay for complex diseases in both adults and children.