Figure 1.
The geographic location of Dehong Prefecture and the distribution of the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS by county or city in Dehong Prefecture (B, one dot equals to two HIV/AIDS cases). Dehong Prefecture borders Myanmar on three sides with a ≈500 km border, is situated in the western part of Yunnan Province (A and C). The prefecture has two cities (Ruili City and Luxi City) and three counties (Longchuan County, Yingjiang County and Lianghe County) with 1.1 million persons living in an area of 11 526 km2 (4450 square miles, approximately the size of Jamaica, or the US state of CT). Dehong is an ethnically diverse region with five major distinct ethno-cultural groups