Topic: China
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated China on Thursday for lifting travel restrictions for foreigners with HIV and AIDS."I am encouraged by the growing international consensus against discriminatory HIV-based travel restrictions, and I congratulate China on being a part of this ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has revoked a ban on people with HIV/AIDS entering the country, softening a decades-old policy that drew sharp criticism this year when an Australian writer was blocked after declaring himself HIV-positive.Until now, China's regulations formally banned foreigners entering ...
China announced Tuesday that it had lifted travel restrictions for foreigners with HIV and AIDS ahead of the 2010 Expo.The State Council, or cabinet, announced that an amendment to the law on the entry of foreigners into China had removed the travel ...
China could lift a longstanding ban on HIV-positive foreigners entering the country as early as this month, state media reported Wednesday.Citing "insiders," the China Daily newspaper said the State Council, or Cabinet, decided on Monday it would make changes to laws barring ...
UNAIDS, backed by hundreds of parliamentarians, called Sunday for the lifting of travel restrictions on HIV-positive people which are still by imposed by 52 countries.Complete entry bans on HIV-positive visitors are in place in 11 countries, including Singapore and China, while other ...
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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 90 percent of the world's 16 million injecting drug users are offered no help to avoid contracting AIDS, and governments that ignore them risk a spiraling public health crisis, drugs experts said on Monday.A "critical health problem" ...
Don't quote me Former chemistry professor Homer Jacobson has requested that two passages be retracted from a 1955 paper he wrote on the origins of life after discovering that creationists were using them to support their arguments. The 84-year-old scientist told the ...
According to BBC News, there is a virtual epidemic brewing in China. Repeated HIV testing has been negative, but the men continue to feel that they are ill. Some have left their families to avoid infecting them, and spend their lives in ...
Elvucitabine is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) for the treatment of both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). GCAT has a China JV with Tianjing Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, which will be responsible for developing and commercializing the ...