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August 30, 2004

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Dealing with AIDS in China

China is tackling its growing AIDS problem, slowly but surely. Over the weekend in Beijing the NPC passed laws making the collection of blood illegal; outlaws discrimination against AIDS victims and provides money for various lower Government levels to deal with AIDS. China had a string of scandals during the 1990s where villagers and peasants became infected with AIDS after donating blood in what can be best described as dodgy conditions. The collection of blood was already illegal but the new law now makes it illegal to deal in the illegally collected blood as well.

Xinhua quotes an estimate of 840,000 people with AIDS in China.
The true number is likely to be higher, but thankfully the disease is not yet at crisis level in the country. While its response to the disease has been slow, it is heartening to see that China is moving in the right direction. The problem will be in filtering the efforts of Beijing to deal with AIDS down to the provinces and regions and even right down to village level to have a real effect. Like many things in China, good intentions from Beijing do not always translate into action on the ground.

 posted by Simon on 08.30.04 at 10:39 AM in the




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Of course it's at a crisis level, because no one can be sure if the standard answer is the actual one. AIDS infections rates are at crisis levels all over the world.

posted by: hk on 08.30.04 at 11:47 AM [permalink]




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