Tag: AIDS

Wang Shuping: Inconvenient Truth of AIDS in China

In the early 1990s, thousands of impoverished rural residents in Henan Province gave blood at local clinics which offered compensation for their blood plasma. Their blood was drawn and mixed together in a common vat, and then after the plasma was extracted patients were re-infused with the remaining blood. Tens of thousands of people acquired HIV through this method, yet were not informed of the ri

October 10, 2012 10:49 PM

Li Keqiang Calls for Equal Treatment for AIDS Patients

When a 25-year-old lung cancer patient was refused treatment at a hospital in Tianjin because he is also HIV-positive, he

November 23, 2012 4:32 PM

China’s Next First Lady a Challenge for Image Makers

As a famous singer and goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation, Peng Liyuan might seem a perfect first lady

October 22, 2012 11:24 PM

AIDS Activism: Bad Blood

Following protests in Zhengzhou last month in which some 300 AIDS patients and supporters toppled the gate of a governmen

September 6, 2012 9:35 PM

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