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Gov't upholds fine on school for HIV-related discrimination

Source: The China Post

TAIPEI -- Health Minister Lin Tzou-yien (林奏延) upheld Saturday a decision by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to impose a NT$1 million (US$31,900) fine on National Defense University for discriminating against an HIV-positive student in 2013.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said that notice of the fine will be issued to the university on Aug. 29 at the earliest.

The CDC under the MOHW decided to impose the fine on the university Aug. 15, and its decision was backed up by the ministry after a review of the case, the ministry said. It marked the first time the CDC has issued a fine on the grounds of education discrimination.More

 

 

 

 

 

28/8/2016

This Aussie startup can make it easier to track HIV worldwide

Source: Geektime

Battling HIV isn’t the most glamorous or rewarding war you could fight. It takes a thick skin and acute determination since there have been few breakthroughs to defeat the virus. But anyone working at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia or its China-based spinout Nanjing BioPoint has that tenacity.

 

“You put in a drop of blood and it separates it into its plasma, which allows you to send it to a lab for testing. For the HIV-infected, this is the big roadblock to doing that effectively,” says Nanjing BioPoint President and CEO, as well as Deputy Director of the Burnet Institute, David Anderson, Ph.D. The company’s sample-collecting material automatically separates plasma from the rest of the blood and allows its to be sent on a dry sheet through the regular mail to a testing center.