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Read MoreChina analyst David Cowhig has provided the following translation of an article from the China Business Herald about Doctor Gao Yaojie and the AIDS epidemic in China. Below is a note from the translator followed by the translation: Translator’s note: Dr. Gao Yaojie will receive a Global Leadership Award from Vital Voices on March 14 […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Dozens of middle school students in southern China were sickened in a hepatitis A outbreak that authorities linked to contaminated well water and poor sanitation, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday. The outbreak at Fengshan Town No. 2 Middle School in the Guangxi region has led to the hospitalization of 112 students, […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential blog: Nineteen Chinese AIDS patients have been awarded more than $2 million in compensation in a landmark lawsuit hailed by rights campaigners.The 19 patients were infected by contaminated blood transfusions. Their award of 20 million yuan ($2.5 million) in compensation represents the biggest legal case of its kind in China. Fifteen of […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: An attempt to sue authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region over discrimination against children infected with the Hepatitis B virus has foundered after parents dropped the case under what activists say was heavy pressure from local officials. The failure of the lawsuit highlights the difficulties faced by Chinese who seek to challenge […]
Read MoreThe Economist writes about the discrimination faced by the one out of ten Chinese citizens who suffer from Hepatitis B: IN CHINA, as elsewhere, people with HIV/AIDS often suffer discrimination. But a far bigger group of virus carriers in China encounters similar bigotry. For 130m Chinese carrying the hepatitis B virus, which can cause fatal […]
Read MoreFrom The Nation, via Yahoo News (link): Back in the late 90’s when I was working as a journalist in China, I happened to read Timothy Garton Ash’s The File. It’s a personal account about what happened in East Germany soon after the Berlin Wall fell when East Germans were suddenly able to access their […]
Read MoreA report by a U.N. agency and the Chinese Cabinet’s AIDS commission released shows that the number of people contracting the AIDS virus in China is rising, reported the Washington Post. An estimated 840,000 people have HIV while 84,000 have full-blown AIDS, spread mostly through prostitution and intravenous drug use. President Hu Jintao shown shaking […]
Read MoreKQED’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.
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