KQED’s Pacific Time reported on the failure of anti-AIDS efforts in China to help children afflicted with the virus. Although the government has made impressive progress in recent years in combatting HIV/AIDS, programs designed to help children, and medicines that are safe for children, are not easily available. Listen to the audio report here.
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced new “urgent” measures to help stop the spread of AIDS, International > Asia Pacific > China Announces Plan to Curb Rapid Spread of AIDS” href=”http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/09/content_1459260.htm”>reported by Xinhua today, “Those officials breaching duty or hiding epidemic reports will be severely punished.” For more news stories from local Chinese press about HIV/AIDS, […]
Read Morefrom Asia Times: “In a health campaign harking back to Maoist mass mobilizations and the era of “barefoot doctors”, China is dispatching droves of young medics to work in rural areas in an effort to rectify the shortcomings of economic reforms that have left the vast countryside poor and vulnerable to health crises, like HIV/AIDS. […]
Read More+By Hamish McDonald April 6, 2004 The article reports, “Chinese security agencies are continuing arrests of activists seeking official forgiveness of participants in the pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China that were suppressed with massacres from the night of June 3-4, 1989.” As the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen approaches, the government […]
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