NGO builds new model of AIDS education

Source: Shanghai Daily

WHAT are the essential conditions for pregnancy?” “What is safe sex?” “If you or your partner fell pregnant, what would you do?”

In a rural middle school in Yingjiang County of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, teacher NieYongxian is giving a ninth-grade class a sex-education lesson.

The students are not shy and offered straightforward questions.

This class — called “Youth Love Cabin” — is sponsored by the AIDS Prevention Education Project for Chinese Youth (APEPCY), a non-profit organization established by China Charities Aid Foundation for Children and the Chinese Society of Education, to promote sex education in schools to help prevent HIV/AIDS transmission among local youths.More

8/7/2016

China's looming AIDS epidemic

Source: Global Post

When it comes to public health, China's leaders have done at least one thing very well: They've beaten back AIDS.

Indeed, China's is one of the most impressive turnarounds in the history of HIV and AIDS policy. After facing the threat of an "AIDS typhoon" in the 1990s, China's adult prevalence of HIV is now less than 0.1 percent, one of the lowest rates on the planet. But this success story is teetering on the edge of defeat, and it all comes down to a growing crisis in the nation's gay community.

Last November, China Daily noted skyrocketing rates of HIV and AIDS among gay men. In spite of that, Premier Li Keqiang made no mention of the group when he chaired a State Council meeting in April at which AIDS was a main topic.More

8/7/2016

Education, resources needed to reverse HIV/AIDS trends

Source: Shanghai Daily

WHILE HIV/AIDS got a relatively slow start on Chin’s mainland compared with many Western countries, alarm bells have been sounding as infection rates have been rising, with many of those most at risk either ignoring or ignorant of the full extent of the danger.

College students and homosexuals have been at the vanguard of efforts to stop the disease, but rates are spreading among other groups, too.

There are disturbing HIV/AIDS trends among young people in colleges and universities in China, where men who have sex with men (MSM) constitute an increasingly important group in the fight.More

7/7/2016

Generic Manufacturing Deals For HIV And Hepatitis C Treatments Signed At Medicines Patent Pool

Source: Intellectual Property Watch

Today the Medicines Patent Pool announced the signing of nine new sub-licensing agreements for the generic manufacturing of key HIV and hepatitis C treatments.

According to the MPP press release, it signed licences with Aurobindo (India), Desano (China), Emcure (India), Hetero Labs (India), Laurus Labs (India), Lupin (India) and a new partner, ZydusCadila (India).

Aurobindo signed two new sub-licences for lopinavir and ritonavir (both HIV treatments) for Africa. Desano, a Chinese manufacturer and Emcure also signed licences for those treatments.