China applauded for holding summer camp for children

Source: News Ghana

A senior official of the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has lauded China’s initiative to provide care and support to children orphaned by AIDS through its summer camp.

 

Hellen AtienoOdido, Investment and Efficiency Adviser at the UNAIDS office in Ghana, said the camp was an opportunity for children living with HIV and those affected by it to see the world and to expand their view beyond their problems.

The “Love Under the Sun” camp is an initiative of the Chinese association of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS prevention and control.

 

It aims to open the children’s view through sightseeing tour and interesting training activities which will make them relax, feel others care for them and improve their mental and physical health.More

 

 

 

21/7/2016

China Investigating Data Leak and Swindling of H.I.V. Patients

Source: The New York Times

BEIJING — Bai Hua, the director of a support network based in Beijing for people with H.I.V./AIDS, said he began receiving the messages about two weeks ago. Hundreds of people with H.I.V. across China were reporting that they were being called by someone who claimed to be from the government and had access to their medical records and other personal information.

 

According to Mr. Bai, one man, who lives in Huangshan, in Anhui Province, said that he received a call last week. The caller, who knew the man’s name and the details of the case, said that he was with the city’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention and that under a new policy, the man could receive a subsidy of 4,680 renminbi, or about $700, for drugs and treatment. The caller left a number the man could call for more information.More

 

 

 

 

20/7/2016

Shanghai prison segregates prisoners with HIV/AIDS from other inmates

Source: Shanghai List

A prison in Shanghai's Qingpu District has taken some drastic measures to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS inside its institution.

 

On Monday, authorities decided to start housing prisoners with HIV/AIDS in a separate ward in the wake of a growing number of inmates contracting the virus, the Global Times reports. The new ward is capable of housing up to 220 prisoners suffering from HIV/AIDS.More

 

 

 

 

18/7/2016

Border residents face higher risk of infectionSource: China Daily

Despite often spending several hours a day walking between villages in the mountainous areas of Southwest China's Yunnan province, Yang Chunyan always wears shoes with 10-centimeter-high stiletto heels.

 

The 38-year-old advocate of HIV/AIDS control and anti-drug education said she wants to present a dynamic, sophisticated image that will impress the local people and reinforce the message she is trying to convey.

 

As the director of the Yingjiang Charity Federation, Yang has cooperated with the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youth since 2012, when it piloted six "Youth Love Stations" in Yingjiangcounty in Yunnan.More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18/7/2016

Global AIDS conference exposes South Africa's dramatic change in outlook

Source: The China Post

The first time the world came to South Africa for a conference on AIDS, the country's leader shocked attendees by questioning whether HIV really caused the disease.

 

President Thabo Mbeki then walked out of the room as a slender 11-year-old boy with AIDS addressed the crowd in response, pleading for treatment and understanding in a region where the epidemic was taking its harshest toll.

 

"Don't be afraid of us. We are all the same," Nkosi Johnson said. He died the next year.

 

South Africa's official attitude to AIDS at that meeting in 2000 and for several years afterward set back the country so badly that more than 330,000 people died because the government withheld HIV drugs, a Harvard study found. More

 

 

 

 

18/7/2016

AIDS 2016 to Focus on Progress, Challenges in Finding Cure

Source: Women of China

The prospects of developing safe, effective, and globally scalable approaches to curing or achieving sustained remission of HIV infection take centre stage at the upcoming 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), organizers said on Saturday.

 

"HIV cure research has the potential to alter the future of this epidemic," said Nobel Laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-chair of the International AIDS Society (IAS) Towards an HIV Cure Initiative.

 

At AIDS 2016 scheduled for July 18-22, 18,000 scientists, policymakers, advocates and people living with HIV will meet to highlight the latest accomplishments and challenges in a rapidly expanding area of scientific inquiry that few could have imagined at the historic 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban 16 years ago, which inspired a new paradigm for HIV treatment access that helped change the trajectory of the global AIDS epidemic.More

 

18/7/2016

AIDS education project for students passes the test

Source: China Daily

A campaign to provide information and help prevent young people from becoming infected is paying dividends. Yang Wanli reports from Yunnan and Sichuan provinces.

'The enemy we are fighting is HIV/AIDS, instead of carriers (people who are HIV-positive) and patients (those with full-blown AIDS). Prejudice toward AIDS patients could be more harmful than the disease itself," said Jing Xi, a ninth-grade student at Longquanyi No 7 Middle School in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China.

It was the first time the 14-year-old student had shared her opinions about AIDS with her teacher and classmates. Jing is one of tens of thousands of young Chinese who have benefited from the "Youth Love Station", a project sponsored by the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youth, a nonprofit organization that provides education to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among students.