HIV/AIDS in China
The INFO Project Blog has posted a video interview with Dr. Wang Ruotao of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Wang provides an overview of the occurrence of HIV/AIDS in China, where...
View ArticleNun Helps Gay Community in Shenyang
Here’s a glimpse of one nun’s work with HIV positive men and women in Shenyang of the Liaoning Province from Mother Jones. Sister Fabian Han Fengxia leads a program unique in its work with the gay...
View ArticleChina’s HIV Positive Population to Hit 740,000
The HIV positive population in China is likely at 740,000, compared to 700,000 in 2007. From China Daily: The number of HIV positive people in China probably stands at around 740,000, up from the...
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China’s Mystery HIV-Like Disease May Be All in the Mind
From the BBC: Hundreds of people in China believe they might have a new disease with HIV-like symptoms, but doctors suggest their illness could be the result of a mental rather than a physical...
View ArticleThe Truth of China’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Jim Amon, director of health and human rights at Human Rights Watch, writes on the international community’s uncritical praise of China’s response to its HIV/AIDS epidemic. From the Los Angeles Times:...
View ArticleChina’s HIV/AIDS-Plagued region Launches Blanket Surveillance
Efforts are underway to account for all persons with HIV/AIDS in Xinjiang. Xinjiang has one-tenth of the nation’s HIV cases: Health authorities in a remote Chinese region bordering one of Asia’s major...
View ArticleHIV Positive Teachers to Petition China Government
Anti-discrimination laws in China state that people who have HIV or AIDS are entitled to equal employment and medical treatment, but three men from three different provinces claimed that they were...
View ArticleProgress and Shortcomings in China's Fight Against AIDS
Today marks the 23rd World AIDS Day, and a special page from the China Daily website provides a synopsis of the battle against AIDS in the mainland, lauding the progress that has been made. The page...
View ArticleAIDS Patients Topple Government Gate
As the AIDS mortality rate in China has dropped, other reports found people with AIDS in China were denied hospital care. The Associated Press reports about 300 patients and their relatives toppled the...
View ArticleAIDS Activism: Bad Blood
Following protests in Zhengzhou last month in which some 300 AIDS patients and supporters toppled the gate of a government compound, The Economist explains the roots, challenges and particular...
View ArticleChina’s Next First Lady a Challenge for Image Makers
As a famous singer and goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation, Peng Liyuan might seem a perfect first lady to China’s next president Xi Jinping. But this picture is complicated by an...
View ArticleLi Meets AIDS Activists as HIV Rates Rise
China’s Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that HIV rates have risen through the first ten months of the year, according to Xinhua News: From January to October, 16,131 new cases of HIV...
View ArticleChina’s Counterfeit Condoms
China Daily reported yesterday on a counterfeit condom factory busted in the southeastern province of Fujian, and two other underground factories uncovered by the police investigation : An underground...
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Censorship Vault: Henan AIDS Villages
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Henan Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department: No media may report on the Henan AIDS villages. (June 29,...
View ArticleLi Keqiang’s AIDS Advocacy Met With Skepticism
In a letter to Beijing You’an Hospital on World AIDS Day, Premier Li Keqiang ”stressed the need for scientific treatment and caring hearts in the fight against HIV/AIDS.” Xinhua reports: He also...
View ArticleSex Workers’ Rights Activist Barred From Leaving China
After an unsuccessful attempt to get an Australian visa to attend the 20th International Aids Conference in Melbourne next weekend, AIDS and sex workers’ rights activist Ye Haiyan says that she’s been...
View ArticleWang Shuping: Inconvenient Truth of AIDS in China
In the early 1990s, thousands of impoverished rural residents in Henan Province gave blood at local clinics which offered compensation for their blood plasma. Their blood was drawn and mixed together...
View ArticleCensorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (8)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org...
View ArticleLi Keqiang Calls for Equal Treatment for AIDS Patients
When a 25-year-old lung cancer patient was refused treatment at a hospital in Tianjin because he is also HIV-positive, he forged his medical records in order to get treated at another hospital. He is...
View ArticleChina’s “Great Global Thinkers” for 2012
As the season of lists gets underway, Foreign Policy has released its ranking of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012. Fresh from his coronation as GQ magazine’s Rebel of the Year, and leading the...
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