Topic: East Asia
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China needs to identify and provide effective AIDS drugs to more HIV patients infected through sexual contact and use of dirty needles if it wants cut HIV death rates and avoid broader transmission of the virus, researchers said ...
People living with HIV/AIDS in China are routinely denied medical treatment in hospitals, a UN agency said Wednesday, in a sign of ongoing discrimination despite recent progress.The International Labour Organization (ILO) uncovered HIV-related discrimination in China's hospitals and clinics via interviews with ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said on Wednesday that its experimental HIV drug elvitegravir met the main goal of a late-stage clinical trial.The goal was to demonstrate that the drug is as effective after 48 weeks of treatment, dosed once daily, ...
China warned Wednesday of the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in some areas, saying the situation in the country was still grim and calling for better prevention and treatment of the disease."The disease in some areas and population groups has become highly prevalent ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes to more or less bring the spread of AIDS under control by 2020, but faces an uphill task do to so due in part to ignorance and poor policy coordination, the government said on Wednesday.China has 560,000 ...
A heart-wrenching documentary about AIDS sufferers in China and the discrimination they face in their daily lives has won a rapturous reception at the Berlin film festival.Based on interviews and emails with a wide range of HIV positive people, director Zhao Liang ...
A retired senior Chinese health official on Wednesday called for two of the country's most powerful leaders to take responsibility for a huge 1990s blood-selling AIDS scandal.Chen Bingzhong, 78, who has advanced liver cancer, wrote an open letter to Chinese President Hu ...
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 ...
Following are home news items to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Tuesday: -- Follow-up on school stampede in China's Xinjiang . -- AIDS: Agony hidden in the depth of mountains .
The total number of reported AIDS deaths in China has jumped by nearly 20,000 since an official estimate last year, state media said Monday as Beijing vowed to step up efforts to curb its spread.Deaths linked to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) ...
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