Topic: East Asia
The chief of the UNAIDS agency said Thursday that global contributions to fighting the disease are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times. "The world economic recession is pushing countries... to enforce austerity," UNAIDS chief Michel ...
A Chinese man has filed a lawsuit alleging he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in what state media on Tuesday called the nation's first such discrimination case. The plaintiff, whose identity was not revealed, filed the suit against the ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People infected with hepatitis B virus are around twice as likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers reported on Tuesday. Hepatitis B was already known to cause liver cancer and some scientists had suspected it might cause lymphoma, too. The ...
China, India and other fast-growing economies should start to contribute to the world's war chest to fight AIDS, the head of the Global Fund said on Friday as the 18th world AIDS conference wound down. Speaking amid deepening concern about donations from ...
A migrant worker seriously injured in a wage dispute in China said Friday that a hospital had refused to treat her after doctors found out she was HIV-positive. Li Na, 37, told AFP she was beaten up Monday when she and fellow ...
Wan Yanhai, China's top AIDS activist, said he suffered years of harassment from authorities which eventually came to a head earlier this year when he fled to the United States with his family. He is just one of the nation's AIDS campaigners ...
Rampant prostitution which has accompanied China's rapid economic growth is fuelling a 30 percent increase in syphilis infections each year, state media reported on Saturday. Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but has increased 10-fold over the past ...
Religion News in BriefPlans to allow married same-sex couples to qualify as families for camping permits reflects an "insidious pattern" of state agencies seeking to change rules to benefit such couples, an Iowa lawmaker said. Sen. Merlin Bartz, a Republican from Grafton, ...
China's top AIDS activist, whose group helped uncover a major tainted blood-selling scandal in the 1990s, said Tuesday he had fled with his family to the United States because he feared for his safety. Wan Yanhai, 46, said he, his wife and ...
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