Topic: Beijing
BEIJING (Reuters) - Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their employers discovered they had the virus that causes AIDS.The landmark ...
Retired Chinese official pushes for investigation of 1990s HIV epidemic from tainted bloodIn his dying days, a retired Chinese health official is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with ...
China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down after pressure from authoritiesA group founded by well-known imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia to work with AIDS patients and orphans said Thursday it is closing down after increasing pressure from tax authorities.Beijing ...
Chinese AIDS activist who caught the virus as a boy is detained by police, colleagues sayPolice in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the ...
This section offers news briefs in China. China's first regional airliner ARJ21-700 Xiangfeng finished its first flight in Shanghai in on November 28, 2008. A ceremony was held by Pepsi Co. Ltd. to introduce Doritos in China.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - More than 90 Australian authors signed a letter on Thursday decrying China's refusal to grant a visa to one of the country's most celebrated writers because he was HIV-positive, a move that Beijing defended.More than 90 other writers, including ...
BEIJING (Reuters Life! ) - A Chinese city with one of the nation's highest rates of AIDS has opened a government-funded gay bar in an outreach effort that has stirred debate over the use of taxpayers' money.The health department in Dali, a ...
UNAIDS report says heterosexual sexual contact main cause for HIV's spread in ChinaThe virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of ...
In Chinese adults with AIDS, the National Free Antiretroviral Treatment Program has reduced mortality to levels observed in other low- or middle-income nations. But the program's 50 percent immunological treatment failure rate -- a consequence of reliance on first-line regimens -- suggests ...
Chinese AIDS activist says she was taken from Beijing after World AIDS DayA Chinese AIDS activist said Wednesday that she was forcibly taken back to her rural home after participating in World AIDS Day in Beijing.Li Xige, who is HIV positive, said ...
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