From Globe and Mail (link): China steps up surveillance of AIDS patients Security boosted before parliament meets.
As it prepares for the annual meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament, China is launching a crackdown on one of its poorest and most vulnerable groups: people infected by the AIDS virus.
Security agents have swooped down on the homes of AIDS patients and activists in Henan province, where about 300,000 people were infected by the virus in the mid-1990s as a result of tainted blood and contaminated equipment.
Police vehicles are stationed outside the homes of many AIDS activists, keeping them under surveillance and following them when they leave their homes.
