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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