From Reuters via Yahoo News:
With the familiarity of a long-married couple, Leng Zhijin lifts his wife Wang Xiangying’s ragged blouse to show raw rashes and she grasps his shoulder, gaunt after 20 days of diarrhea.
Like an estimated 300,000 farmers across central China’s rural Henan province, including some 100 in their brick-and-mud Leng Village of 800, they caught the HIV virus through state-promoted schemes offering poor farmers easy money for their blood.
“I’m glad we have medicine so we don’t die, but living is also hard,” said Leng, 43 and haggard beyond his years. “Look at us. Is this really called living?”…[Full Text]
