From China Youth Daily (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth:
Little Wei and Old Ji are peasants in Wenxi county, Shanxi province. They were both born in 1965. Both of them were found to be infected with the AIDS/HIV virus around 1997 from previous blood transfusions. At the end of last year, they were staying at the Beijing Youan Hospital, they met Hu Jintao and they shook hands with the General Secretary. That night, the television news program made a report in which their faces were not covered up or disguised.
From there on, there was turmoil in their two families and their lives underwent huge changes.
Over the past year, the AIDS-prevention volunteer Wang Tianming has been following them around and photographing them. He witnessed what the two families went through and he wrote about the difficult situation in which the two AIDS patients who shook General Secretary Hu Jintao’s hands found themselves. Wang contacted a number of media as well as the relevant government units, but nobody paid any attention.
December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day, and the day on which AIDS patients receive maximum attention. On November 25, Wang Tianming went to Shanxi and took Old Ji and them to Beijing.
