From AFP, via The Age: China has shut down a popular blog by a Tibetan author after she wrote birthday wishes for the Dalai Lama and touched on other sensitive topics, the writer and a website operator told AFP. The blog also discussed the HIV/AIDS problem in Tibet, the impact of the recently completed Tibet […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua News Agency: Guangzhou education officials have called for a rethink in sex education efforts, shifting away from textbook-based anatomy teaching and focusing more on morals and relationships. To protect young people and society as a whole from HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancy, the capital city of South China’s Guangdong Province began […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe, via The International Herald Tribune: China This scenic capital of China’s southern Yunnan Province has earned itself a more unsavory sobriquet – China’s AIDS capital. Historically, this multi-ethnic region of stunning valleys and gorges, including a site locals say is the fabled region of Shangri-La, stood out in mostly Han China […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via China AIDS Survey Daily News Service (link): An award-winning HIV/Aids documentary denied a public screening for four years has finally made its way into mainland DVD shops. Independent documentary director Chen Weijun, who sneaked into a village disguised as a peasant to make To Live is Better Than to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): A group of non-governmental organizations in China say the government has excluded them from participating in a global initiative against HIV/AIDS and are electing their own representative despite Beijing’s opposition. The more than 60 groups say the government imposed their own delegate on the Chinese coordinating board of the Global Fund to […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): The first national free hotline offering advice to gay people on a range of subjects has been launched. Volunteers in Guangzhou and Shanghai have joined forces for the initiative, which will provide advice on psychological problems, legal issues and HIV/AIDS. Hong Kong-based Chi Heng Foundation, which is sponsoring the service, has […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (link): Uyghur Muslim families in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang are feeling the devastating impact of the heroin trade as drug-trafficking routes become well-established, bringing addiction, crime, and HIV/AIDS infection in their wake. “Drug addicts are increasing now, and they are young Uyghur men and boys,” a drug-trafficking enforcement officer […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily (link): Wang Xiaodong, a 35-year-old gay man in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, has spent 6,000 hours over the past three years on volunteer work to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In December 2004, the Ministry of Health published for the first time the number of Chinese homosexuals as five […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: One could be forgiven for thinking communicable illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS and the newly feared bird flu, are the major disease threats for Asia in the next and coming decades… It would be foolish in any way to discount the potential impact of these diseases. But a much greater health concern looms […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: By the end of June 2005, China has reported 126,808 people infected with HIV, including 28,789 AIDS patients. The death toll of HIV/AIDS had reached 7,375, according to Hao Yang, deputy head of the disease control department with the Ministry of Health on Friday.
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