Topic: East Asia
China is due to hold its first AIDS Walk -- a fundraising walkathon already popular in the US -- on the Great Wall, organisers said Wednesday, as the nation steps up its fight against the disease.The AIDS Walk first took place in ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of new HIV/AIDS cases in China is soaring, state media said on Wednesday, citing health officials, with rates of infections among college students and older men rising.The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued figures showing ...
Three Chinese men who say they were illegally denied government teaching jobs because they are HIV-positive have taken their cases to the country's top leaders, their lawyer told AFP on Tuesday.The men all had passed employment exams but were rejected by education ...
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 ...
New HIV infections are falling in Asia, with India, the country with the biggest population of infected people in the region, reporting a 56 percent plunge from the epidemic's peak, the United Nations said Monday."In South and South-east Asia, the estimated 270,000 ...
An HIV-positive man in China said Thursday he was suing local authorities for denying him a job as a primary school teacher, in a sign of growing assertiveness among the nation's HIV/AIDS sufferers.If accepted by the court, the lawsuit will be only ...
Scientists have now provided revolutionary tools to roll back HIV but only a major funding boost, supported especially by emerging giant economies, will determine the outcome, experts say.Experts at the conference on AIDS medicine here said the money gap imperilled the dazzling ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the head of UNAIDS said Monday, rebuffing critics who say the world's second-largest economy should no longer be a recipient of ...
When Meng Lin found out he was HIV-positive, he was forced to leave home, quit his job and change his name -- the victim of intense discrimination experts say hinders China's fight against the disease.Fifteen years later, Meng has finally landed on ...
As the war on AIDS heads into its fourth decade, the need for funds is spiralling relentlessly higher, prompting a quest for new resources from consumer levies to contributions from developing giants."We currently have around 16 billion dollars available for the global ...
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