China’s Ministry of Health has announced that as of July 1, lesbians are allowed to donate blood. CNN reports: The Chinese Ministry of Health has lifted a 14-year-old ban on lesbians donating blood in effect as of July 1....
From Reuters: China, reeling from a series of health scandals, has ordered video surveillance at blood collection centers across the country in a bid to stamp out a persistent black market trade, state media reported on Wednesday. The order comes after six people were jailed for illegally soliciting blood from migrant workers in the southern […]
From Scidev.net: Chinese and US researchers have said illegal blood donation is to blame for high levels of hepatitis C infection in rural China. Although illegal blood donation practices were stopped by the Chinese government in the late 1990s, methods of collecting and storing blood need to be urgently improved to stop the virus spreading […]
From Reuters: China has arrested 15 people for involvement in illegal blood-selling schemes blamed for widespread HIV/AIDS infections in the 1990s, the China Daily said on Thursday. The arrests were linked to 106 cases of unsafe blood collection, illegal organization of people to sell plasma and “serious malpractice” in blood market supervision, the newspaper quoted […]
BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhuanet) — Five men went on trial in Shanghai this week for using the Internet to recruit people, mainly middle-school students, to sell their blood. The Yangpu District People’s Court began hearing the case, the first of its kind in the city, on Monday. Prosecutors told the court that the men, who […]
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