Chinese HIV-positive man files discrimination suit

2011-09-08T16:30:32Z

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 the second such discrimination case heard in China, where people with HIV/AIDS are often stigmatised despite growing signs of openness.

The 27-year-old plaintiff, who goes by the alias

'Funding gap' imperils science exploits, AIDS forum hears

2011-07-19T16:30:15Z

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 potential to curb the 30-year-old pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

"We are in dangerous times for AIDS funding," said Peter Piot

Cutting AIDS funding to China a big mistake: UNAIDS

2011-07-11T07:00:16Z

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 such aid.

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Discrimination in China hinders AIDS fight

2011-05-30T20:30:22Z

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 his feet. He works at an HIV/AIDS NGO and has a partner, but still keeps his disease a secret from his friends amid continuing prejudice in China,...

After 30 years, new sources needed for AIDS campaign

2011-05-30T05:30:18Z

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 fight against aids," said Bernhard Schwartlander, who heads the strategy and results department at the UN agency 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 on Thursday.

In a paper published in medical journal 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 ho...

China warns HIV/AIDS highly prevalent in some areas

2011-02-16T10:30:42Z

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 and many HIV carriers and patients have not yet been discovered," the State Council, China's cabinet, said in a statement.

It added the HIV virus that causes AIDS was mostly...

China aims to bring AIDS spread under control by 2020

2011-02-16T05:30:08Z

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 to 920,000 people infected with the HIV virus and 97,000 to 112,000 A...

Poignant Chinese AIDS film moves Berlin festival

2011-02-14T20:30:19Z

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 said he hoped the film, Zai Yi Qi ("Together"), could change attitudes in China, where at least 740,0...

Ex-official implicates China leaders in AIDS scandal

2010-12-01T06:30:48Z

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 Jintao saying that some involved in the scandal in Henan province...

Ex-official urges probe of China '90s HIV epidemic

2010-11-30T03:30:16Z

Retired Chinese official pushes for investigation of 1990s HIV epidemic from tainted blood

In 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 the virus that causes AIDS.

His appeal this week for a full and open investigation highlights a contradiction in China's AIDS policy. Even as the gove...

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2010-11-30T12:39:04Z

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China AIDS death toll up nearly 20,000 in a year

2010-11-29T11:31:31Z

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) since its emergence in China in the 1980s reached 68,315 by the end of October, state television said, citing figures from the health ministry...

Defendant loses China's first HIV jobs bias case

2010-11-12T13:31:35Z

Court rules against defendant in China's first HIV employment discrimination case

A Chinese court ruled Friday against the defendant in the country's first lawsuit over employment discrimination against people who are HIV-positive, the man's lawyer said.

The defendant, identified only by the nickname "Little Wu," brought the suit in the eastern city of Anqing after being refused a teaching job because he...

China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down

2010-11-11T03:00:16Z

China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down after pressure from authorities

A 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.

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China court hears first HIV discrimination suit

2010-10-13T01:30:27Z

A Chinese court on Wednesday heard the case of a man who alleges he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in the nation's first such discrimination case, his lawyer said.

The plaintiff, who has only been identified by his alias Xiao Wu, filed the suit against the education department of Anqing city in the eastern province of Anhui.

The lawsuit alleges city officials denied the plaintiff, a recent college graduate, a teaching job a...

China court to hear first HIV discrimination suit

2010-10-12T21:30:33Z

A Chinese court was Wednesday to begin hearing the case of a man who alleges he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in what state media has said is the nation's first such discrimination case.

The plaintiff, who has only been identified by his alias Xiao Wu, filed the suit against the education department of Anqing city in the eastern province of Anhui, the official Reuters) - Scientists in China and Hong Kong are designing a gel containing an experimental drug which they hope can reduce HIV infections in women.

The search for such a prophylaxis is gaining urgency in China with sex becoming the number one mode of HIV transmission and new HIV infections...

China says HIV among migrant workers a concern

2010-09-14T13:16:08Z

China's health minister said Tuesday he was concerned about the HIV/AIDS situation among migrant workers, but added the Asian nation had managed to contain the "fast spread" of the disease.

"My major concern about our situation is the migrant population because the health service towards the migrant population has yet to be improved," Chen Zhu told reporters.

He added that sexual intercourse was the main means of transmis...

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China court accepts first HIV discrimination suit

2010-08-30T21:15:33Z

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 education department of Anqing city in the eastern province of Anhui, the China Daily reported.

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AIDS activists: Chinese colleague detained

2010-08-20T22:30:20Z

Chinese AIDS activist who caught the virus as a boy is detained by police, colleagues say

Police 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 disease angered local authorities, his fellow activists said Saturday.

Under pressure to end Tian Xi's campaigning, police from his...

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2010-11-02T15:43:32Z

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China, India should open wallets for AIDS war: Global Fund

2010-07-23T09:15:54Z

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 western countries, Michel Kazatchkine said a looming funding gap could be bridg...

China hospital 'refuses to treat HIV-positive woman'

2010-07-16T03:15:24Z

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 workers at a construction site in the Inner Mongolia region asked their company for unpaid wages, and was sent to hospital.

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China's AIDS activists face uphill struggle

2010-07-14T01:15:56Z

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 who face ongoing pressure -- a situation that is hampering China's efforts to improve HIV prevention and control, activists and experts say.

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Kun Run Biotechnology Wins Approval for Hepatitis B Drug

2010-10-27T09:38:46Z

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China syphilis infections up 30% each year: report

2010-06-12T00:16:04Z

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 decade to emerge as one of the country's top five infectious diseases, the China Daily...

Top AIDS activist flees China for US

2010-05-10T22:15:19Z

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 his daughter were staying with friends in the eastern US city of Philadelphia after leavin...

China AIDS activist moves to US after harassment

2010-05-09T20:45:09Z

China AIDS activist leaves for US with family after government harassment intensified

A prominent Chinese AIDS activist said Monday he has left China for the United States with his wife and 4-year-old daughter after authorities increasingly harassed him and his organization.

Wan Yanhai, founder of the Beijing-based...

1 Chinese baby born with syphilis every hour

2010-05-06T10:15:17Z

Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say.

The easy-to-cure bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China five decades ago, is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in its largest city, Shanghai.

Prostitutes alo...

One baby with syphilis born every hour in China: study

2010-05-06T00:16:35Z

One child was born with syphilis every hour in China in 2008, researchers said Thursday, as new money from the country's growing economy fuels the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease.

Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but it is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in Shanghai, according to an article in the 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 progress," the top US diplomat said in a statement.

Clinton noted that the

China ends entry ban for foreigners with HIV/AIDS

2010-04-28T11:01:10Z

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 the country with "psychiatric il...

China lifts ban on entry of HIV/AIDS carriers

2010-04-27T11:16:03Z

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 ban on HIV/AIDS carriers to the nation effective Tuesday.

The newly amended law was published in full on the government website.

State press reports said the move would be made ahea...

China could lift HIV visitor ban: state media

2010-04-20T21:15:43Z

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 foreign HIV carriers.

Under current regulations, those suffering fr...

UNAIDS calls for lifting of HIV travel bans

2010-03-28T12:15:52Z

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 restrictions including the refusal of residency rights remain el...

Australian authors protest China visa refusal

2010-03-11T01:00:12Z

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.

Robert Dessaix, whose 1996 novel "Night Letters" dealt ...

Failure to aid drug users drives HIV spread: study

2010-06-12T18:35:29Z

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" is growing in places like Russia, China, China were infected with HIV through contaminated blood, according to a state media report that highlighted the continuing impact of a 1990s blood-selling scandal.

The patients at the No. 2 Hospital in Hubei province's Daye city were infected after receiving transfusions of blood sold by several local residents who were later found to have H...

China paper splashes nation's 'first gay marriage'

2010-04-16T07:41:17Z

State press splashed a front-page photo of China's first publicly "married" gay couple on Wednesday -- the latest sign of new openness about homosexuality in a country where it has long been taboo.

The page-one story in the English-language China Daily featured a photograph of the "newlyweds" arm-in-arm during a January 3 ceremony.

Zeng Anqu...

Report: Tackle overlooked threat of hepatitis B, C

2010-04-16T07:44:37Z

They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.

In the next 10 years, these two liver-damaging infections will kill about 150,000 people in the U.S. alone, says a new report Monday from the prestigious Institute of Medicine.

It calls for a major...

China to launch AIDS radio programme: state media

2010-04-16T07:46:46Z

China's top state-run radio network will launch a programme about AIDS featuring an HIV-positive host in the latest sign of a new official openness towards the disease, state media said Sunday.

The weekly programme, "Positive Talks", will air each Saturday beginning January 16 on China National Radio, Xinhua news agency reported.

It will deal with "publicising knowled...

China drops hepatitis B check for school, work

2010-04-16T08:03:49Z

China will soon stop mandatory hepatitis B tests for people applying for jobs or admission to schools, the Health Ministry said Tuesday, after years of efforts by civic groups to fight discrimination against carriers of the liver disease.

Hepatitis B is endemic in China, with an estimated 120 million sufferers. Currently, students applying for schools and job seekers are usually required to undergo health checks that include tests for the d...

Biostar Pharmaceuticals: Investing in China's Healthcare Stimulus Plan

2010-10-22T13:04:56Z

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First government-backed gay bar opens in China: charity

2010-04-16T08:14:16Z

China's first government-backed gay bar has opened after a three-week delay sparked by intense media attention, a charity said Sunday, in a nation where homosexuality is still a sensitive subject.

The bar opened Saturday in a low-key fashion in the tourist town of Dali in the southwestern province of Yunnan, Media attention keeps Chinese gay bar conspicuously empty at its opening

A new bar in southwestern China aimed at educating gay men about AIDS stayed conspicuously empty during its official opening as potential customers shunned the spotlight, state media said Wednesday.

The bar, which receives government funding from the health bureau in Yunnan province's...

Delays to China's first govt-backed gay bar: NGO

2010-04-16T08:44:48Z

Volunteers have delayed opening China's first government-backed gay bar following intense media attention, an NGO said Wednesday, highlighting the still taboo nature of homosexuality in the country.

"They were scared their identity would be revealed, that it would lead to misunderstanding and changes in their lives," said Zhang Jianbo, founder of the Dali HIV/AIDS prevention and health...

Calls for end to discrimination on World AIDS Day

2010-04-16T08:46:08Z

Calls for an end to discrimination against sufferers rang out on World AIDS Day on Tuesday as South Africa -- the country worst affected by the pandemic -- rolled out a new plan to beat the virus.

With more than 33 million people round the world carrying the virus, China said the incidence among homosexuals was gaining pace wh...

HIV-infected Chinese children struggle with stigma

2010-04-16T08:46:38Z

FUYANG, China (Reuters) - The second storey of this nondescript building in Fuyang city in China's central province of Anhui houses HIV-positive orphans, but unlike many other similar establishments, there are no signboards outside.

Heavy stigma still surrounds the disease ...

China city government opens gay bar to fight AIDS

2010-04-16T08:47:57Z

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 picturesque city on a lake in southwestern BEIJING (Reuters) - People in China living with HIV and AIDS face widespread discrimination and stigma, with even medical workers sometimes refusing to touch them, according to a U.N. survey released on Friday.

UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in China and the government must do more to reach out to civil society and work with vulnerable groups such as homosexuals.

China has 319,877 confirmed HIV cases but 740,000 are estimated to be infected, Michel Sidibe told AFP in an interview late Tuesday,...

UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China

2010-04-16T08:54:10Z

UNAIDS report says heterosexual sexual contact main cause for HIV's spread in China

The 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 progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.

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When More Money = More Syphilis

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Chinese official: Syphilis boom driven by economy

2010-04-16T09:26:20Z

Syphilis soars in China; health official blames migrant workers in country's booming economy

China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economic boom to hire more prostitutes, a senior Chinese health official was quoted as saying Tuesday.

The sexually transmitted disease re-emerged in China during 1980s after being virtually eradicat...

China's economy powering syphilis spread

2010-04-16T09:26:43Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - China is experiencing an epidemic of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that the country virtually wiped out in the 1960s, a senior public health official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

In the WHO Bulletin, a journal produced by the World Health Organization, Xiang-She...

Experts study thriving HIV "controllers" in vaccine search

2010-04-16T09:43:30Z

PARIS (Reuters) - AIDS researchers want to expand their study of a rare group of HIV-infected people, whose immune systems naturally and mysteriously prevent the virus thriving in their bodies, to span the globe.

Studies of these "elite controllers," which aim to find an AIDS vaccine, have so far concentrated on north America. But now scientists are hoping to draw in people from As...

Biostar Pharma Wins Patent for Second Hepatitis B Product

2010-10-22T07:29:39Z

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China to stop mandatory hepatitis B tests: state media

2010-04-16T09:53:22Z

China will stop mandatory hepatitis B tests for employees joining new companies and students enrolling in schools, state media said Sunday, after a court ruled the tests were illegal discrimination.

Deng Haihua, deputy director of the health ministry's general office, said the government would soon issue instructions to stop the practice, which is currently a requirement, the official China's migrant workers are less prone to discriminate against people infected with HIV/AIDS after a massive campaign to inform people about the condition, a survey found.

The three-year project, launched in 2007 by the International Labour Organization and the US and Chinese labour depa...

Forum urges Asia to decriminalise homosexuality

2010-04-16T14:13:58Z

A three-day forum in Hong Kong on a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia ended Friday with delegates calling for countries in the region to follow China's lead in decriminalising homosexuality.

Beijing's decision in 2001 had helped to minimise the spread of HIV/AIDS in China, China's deadliest infectious disease for the first time, the government said, with figures showing at least one person died on average every hour in the first nine months of last year.

AIDS overtook tuberculosis and rabies as the country's number one disease killer in 2008, the health ministry said in a report released on Tuesday.

Although full-year figures were not released, the ministry said the 6,897 people who died...

Chinese women forced into Paris prostitution: aid group

2010-04-16T14:49:08Z

Hundreds of Chinese women have left their children behind in the hope of finding work in Paris, only to end up turning to street prostitution, a humanitarian group said Thursday.

A report by Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said the women, mostly in their forties and sharing small rooms, are often victims of rape and violence, and are highly ex...

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2010-11-02T13:37:46Z

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2010-10-23T19:14:09Z

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Public security forces undermine China's HIV fight: rights group

2010-04-16T13:55:07Z

The harassment and imprisonment of drug users in China is undermining the country's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, activist group Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Police and public security forces are driving drug addicts away from community-based prevention services and denying them access to treatment, the group said in a report.

"The government has expanded ...

Chinese AIDS activist taken home by police

2010-04-16T13:59:16Z

Chinese AIDS activist says she was taken from Beijing after World AIDS Day

A 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 she had managed to escape house arrest in her rural town, but that local police tracked her to Beijing.

Governments tackle HIV stigma on World AIDS Day

2010-06-25T23:52:21Z

Governments across the globe pledged Monday to step up the fight against HIV, combatting the stigma associated with the disease and promising to bankroll treatment programmes on World AIDS Day.

US President George W. Bush was to announce his administration had already met its goal of treating two million people living with HIV/AIDS by the end of the year, while hi...

More than half Beijing's prostitutes shun condoms: state media

2010-04-16T14:10:31Z

More than half of Beijing's prostitutes do not use condoms despite sexual transmission having replaced drug use as the most common infection route for HIV, state media said Tuesday.

Just 47 percent of the 90,000 sex workers in China's capital used condoms, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Fang Laiying, director of the muni...

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China should compensate HIV-hit blood donors: UN official

2010-04-16T14:40:24Z

China should compensate thousands of people infected with the HIV virus through government-backed blood trading and be given access to the latest anti-AIDS drugs, a top UN official said Thursday.

Peter Piot, director of UNAIDS, said he would raise the issue with China's top leaders and u...

Enlightenment a distant gleam

2010-04-16T14:45:14Z

THE WRITING ON THE WALL : CHINA AND THE WEST IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Will Hutton Little, Brown,

CHINA CANDID : THE PEOPLE ON THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC by Sang Ye, edited by Geremie R. Barmé and Miriam Lang China was highlighted yesterday by a plea for help from 101 mothers whose toddlers were denied nursery places after testing positive.

The virus is endemic in China, with at least 120 million carriers - around a third of the global total, and roughly a tenth of the country's population. But the stigma surrounding it remains widespread despite recent laws bannin...

China Coupon Generation

2011-01-02T16:31:05Z

In this Nov. 24, 2010 photo, Ding Can, 32, holds up VIP discount cards and coupons she carries in her purse in Beijing, China. More than a craze, discount shopping is becoming a way of life for young Chinese. Known as the "coupon generation," they are changing the way business is done in the world's second largest economy. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

China New Year

2010-12-31T21:01:16Z

Chinese people strike the Yongle Bell at a temple to celebrate the New Year, in Beijing, China, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Chinese people believe striking the bell at the beginning of the New Year will bring them best wishes. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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China Peaceful Rise

2010-12-29T03:31:35Z

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama welcomes China's President Hu Jintao as he arrives for the G-20 summit dinner in Pittsburgh. China's high-profile feuds with the Beijing, China. China plans to crack down in the coming year on lavish parties and seminars organized by government officials, hoping to placate a public angered by corruption and accounts of sex and booze-fueled fetes held at taxpayer expense. On Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010, Commun...

China Inflation

2010-12-26T16:00:13Z

A delivery worker cycles past a closed bank branch in Beijing, China, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao tried Sunday to reassure the public about the government's ability to control inflation, a day after China raised interest rates amid worries that rising prices could hurt social stability. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

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