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Source: Want China Times
 
About 40 colleges in Guangzhou have been found to have students with HIV. One of the colleges has more than 10 students with the virus, reports People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China.
The number of college students with HIV is not viewed as high, but the number is growing, said the director of the city's disease control and prevention center. The center held a debate on whether college students should be required to undergo HIV testing, which the director said was aimed at promoting awareness of control and prevention of the disease.
The number of people receiving treatment for HIV aged between 15 and 24 in the city rose from 101 in 2008 to 203 last year. Among these, the number who are college students rose from seven in 2008 to 25 last year, according to the director surnamed Wang.
"Most HIV positive students are men who have sex with men," Wang said. "This is a preliminary result, and the information we have in hand is not yet definitive," he added.
Wang pointed out that the reason men who have sex with men became the largest group of college students infected with the virus might be that most of them do not have intercourse in a safe way. "Most male students having sex with female students use condoms to avoid pregnancy. Men who have sex with men are free from this concern and may not always use protection," Wang said.
College students are more educated than most, yet they lack awareness about HIV and AIDS, Wang said. Students hold more open attitudes towards sex, but schools have failed to provide them with an adequate education in this regard. More…
 
23/12//2013
 
Source: China daily
 
More than 10 AIDS/HIV cases have been confirmed at a university in the Guangdong provincial capital, according to Wang Ming, director of the Guangzhou city center of disease control.
 
"All the patients with AIDS/HIV are gay students," Wang was quoted as saying by Information Times, of Guangzhou.
 
Wang did not reveal the name of the university where the 10 cases were diagnosed.
 
Other cases of AIDS/HIV have also been confirmed at other universities in Guangzhou, Wang told local media.
 
A total of 25 student AIDS patients and HIV carriers were detected last year, Wang said.
That was up from seven cases in 2008, Wang said. More…
 
  
11/12/2013
 
Source: Peking University
 
Peking University, Dec, 11, 2013: “Love without HIV/AIDS!” Billboards written anti-HIV/AIDS declarations, distributions of HIV/AIDS prevention materials... On November 29th, a group of PKU volunteers took active actions for the 26th World AIDS Day’s approaching. Their yellow caps became a beautiful landscape at Peking University (PKU).
 
The campus resounded with laughter every now and then. Different from the traditional ways, the anti-HIV/AIDS declarations were recomposed from popular lyrics, attracting the students to join in. They took pictures around the campus, with featured billboards in their hands. “It’s cool!” The participants commented.
 
Other theme activities such as the prize quiz about HIV/AIDS prevention were taking place at PKU as well.
 
Statistics showed that as of September, 434,000 people were detected with HIV/AIDS in China; more than 3,000 were between 15 and 18. HIV/AIDS is striking younger people in China, and the colleges and the universities are playing important roles in HIV/AIDS prevention on campus. More…


 
10/12/2013
 
Source: CNN
 
Beijing (CNN) -- Everyone was all smiles when Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan -- sporting a black coat with a big red ribbon on its lapel -- took center stage at an AIDS event in Beijing last month, posing with young volunteers working with awareness groups around the nation.
 
Peng, a famous folk singer who has been compared to Michelle Obama, is the glamorous public face of China's fight against AIDS.
 
But campaigners say the photo ops and lofty words offered by Peng and other public figures do little to improve the lot of the almost half a million people living with HIV or AIDS in China.
 
In 2011, the same year Peng was appointed as a U.N. goodwill ambassador for AIDS, Hao
Yang tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, when he was trying to donate blood as a young military officer. More…
 
 
05/12/2013
 
Source: UNAIDS
 
The significant role that China’s private sector can play in the AIDS response was emphasized during a recent visit to UNAIDS Geneva headquarters by Li Hejun, Chairman of Hanergy Holding Group, a leading multinational clean energy company.
 
Mr Li, who is also the Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce, was hosted by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé on 12 November. The two leaders had a wide-ranging discussion about how best to reinforce and extend the involvement of the private sector in an effective response to HIV. They also spoke about the future of global social responsibility.
 
Hanergy also hosts the China Red Ribbon Foundation. In addition, Mr Li expressed his willingness to actively enhance his company’s commitment to the AIDS response and cooperate with UNAIDS in the field of international health and development. More…
 
05/12/2013
 
Source: Jezebel
 
Since launching in August last year, the Chinese gay dating app Blued boasts two million users. Despite having an estimated gay population of 30-40 million, and despite legalizing homosexuality in 1997, AND despite removing it from the list of mental diseases in 2001, China's policy on homosexuality remains "Triple No": "No Approval, No Disapproval, No Promotion."
 
Like many other geolocating dating apps, Blued allows users to see and chat with other nearby users. While Blued has the presence Grindr lacks in China and the mobile capabilities other Chinese gay dating services haven't caught up with, it also offers unique support for its users.
 
The team behind the app is led by Geng Le, a prominent gay rights and HIV/AIDS prevention advocate. In 2000, Le kept up a small blog, Light Blue Memory chronicling his experiences as a gay man in China. The blog was so popular that Le, a police officer, decided to launch DanLan, an online community for gay people in China to deal with the isolation many of his readers felt:
 
"The Internet has changed the lives of gays in China, providing a great platform for us to get to know our own kind and to stop feeling lonely. I'm very happy to be part of that dynamic force."
 
While Blued provides multiple ways of connecting users, it also provides news including local events and information on HIV/AIDS and on the progress of gay rights in China, where activists are still fighting for same-sex marriage and its benefits, like being able to adopt children. Le, whose office houses free government-sponsored HIV/AIDS testing continues to contribute to the slowly but increasingly accepted gay cause in China. More…
 
 
04/12/2013
 
Source: Aljazeera
 
China's new gay match-making smartphone app Blued has amassed 2 million users nationwide in a little over a year, the company’s CEO announced Wednesday amid reports in Chinese state media that internet hook-ups are helping to fuel an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the People's Republic.
 
"The customer response has been great," CEO Geng Le told Al Jazeera, adding that he feels his company is part of the solution, not the problem, to China's HIV/AIDS epidemic. "We have helped the government spread education to combat the HIV/AIDS information."
 
Geng, a 36-year-old entrepreneur from China's northern Hebei province, has great ambitions. He estimates that there are 13 million gay men in China. Blued aims to penetrate 10 million smartphones across the country.
 
"There are so many gays in China, just because of the sheer size of the population," Geng said.
 
Nevertheless, Blued faces international competition. More…
 
 
03/12/2013
 
Source: New York Times
 
Two decades after tens of thousands — some say hundreds of thousands — of Chinese contracted the H.I.V. virus from contaminated blood products in an epidemic that raged in the 1990s, the major transmission route today is sex, according to Chinese media reports, citing figures from the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Gay sex was a significant factor, doctors said.
 
Sexual transmission now accounts for 87.1 percent of all new infections, The Beijing News reported Tuesday. 70,000 new cases were identified in the first nine months of this year, according to multiple media reports.
 
And a new at-risk group is growing fast: young people aged between 15-24, according to Wang Ning, an AIDS specialist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
“Before, large numbers of infected people were from not too developed regions,” Dr. Wang told The Beijing News. Key sources of infection were blood products and intravenous drug use. “Now it has entered cities, and the universities where the so-called elite groups are. Even though this special group has the information to prevent AIDS, when they indulge in high-risk behavior they don’t use their knowledge to protect themselves,” he said. More…
 
 
02/12/2013
 
Source: CBC News
 
I sat on a mountain pass at about 3,000 metres overlooking the scene of what had just happened. It felt like slow motion, and from the front seat of our four-by-four, I saw a dump truck slam into the car in front of us head-on, pushing back into ours as we were pushed back into another, then another, five cars in total.
 
The wrecks blocked the narrow road for as far as the eye could see. We all could walk away, so it was a good time to be grateful for life as my thoughts went to the story we were about to cover.
 
On the other side of the pass was a region that has been ravaged by an AIDS epidemic for the past 25 years. Official numbers show Sichuan as having 50,000 cases of AIDS, but the actual numbers are sure to be much higher. Half of the cases are from Liangshan, home of the Yi people, and our destination.
 
In the small isolated villages lives the Yi minority. They lead a rural life, a world removed from China's big, booming cities. Chickens run across roads while cattle amble and heavy blue capes are worn almost like an unofficial uniform. Faces are darkened by sunshine and the elderly are stooped from carrying a lifetime of burden.
 
A local NGO worker took me to visit a family crushed by the disease, in a village where 10 per cent of the population has AIDS.
 
A wrinkled 74-year-old matriarch wanted to speak, and clutching a family photo collage, she started to tell me about how all four of her sons had AIDS; two had already died. More…
 
 
02/12/2013
 
Source: Eastday
 
BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- China's grass-roots community-based non-government organizations (NGOs) are gaining recognition and support from society and government in their efforts on AIDS control.
 
An increasing number of grass-roots NGOs have been approved by local governments under the China-Gates Foundation HIV Prevention Cooperation Program, according to Ray Yip, chief representative of the Beijing office with the China Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
 
The program, launched in November 2007, was the first large-scale public health partnership between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, the State Council AIDS Working Committee and social organizations.
 
The program targeting people most vulnerable to HIV infection, consisting of men who have sex with men, female sex workers, injecting drug users and people living with HIV and AIDS, has covered 14 pilot cities throughout China including Beijing and Shanghai.
 
The six-year program placed strong emphasis on supporting community-based organizations to complement the work of the local branches of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and hospitals, according to Yip. More…
 
 
01/12/2013
 
Source: South China Morning Post
 
Wang Weijun said he felt a kick in his stomach each time he saw his daughter sitting alone in the last row of her middle school classroom. But he said he always swallowed his complaints.
 
Wang's daughter, Kaijia, is 16 and has lived with HIV since 1999.
 
Her teachers have her sit alone, fearing that the girl could spread the virus to other children, even though scientific research shows that HIV cannot be transmitted through casual contact.
 
Kaijia contracted the virus from her mother, who was infected through a blood transfusion during childbirth. The mother died two years after Kaijia was born.
 
"If I'd complained, I would have put my daughter at greater risk to have her HIV-status exposed," Wang, from Hebei province, says. "At least my daughter can stay at school because very few of her classmates have known her status and her teachers have treated her well on [the] surface."
 
Wang's situation illustrates the plight faced by many mainland families with relatives infected with HIV/Aids, where the numbers with the illness are growing. More…
 
 
01/12/2013
 
Source: South China Morning Post
 
China could follow the dangerous path of several African countries where more women than men fall prey to the Aids epidemic if the country fails to enact powerful measures to tackle the problem, particularly among vulnerable groups, women's rights advocates warn.
 
HIV/Aids spreads rapidly among at-risk women on the mainland, says Guo Ruixiang, a programme co-ordinator for UN Women, the United Nations body for gender equality and women's empowerment.
 
But while China's most susceptible women have been overlooked, the nation has taken steps to prevent HIV at birth.
 
The number of reported cases of HIV/Aids on the mainland jumped by 93 per cent in four years - from 48,161 in 2007 to 92,940 in 2011, according to a report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids.
 
Many women's advocates were stunned by the numbers involving women. Estimates of females with the virus shot up 12 per cent - from 200,900 in 2007 to 225,700 in 2009.
 
The findings were included in UN reports, offering researchers valuable statistics for an overdue insight into the spread of HIV/Aids on the mainland. The government did not make any figures available before 2005.