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Source: Asian Scientist
 
Ren Minghui, director-general of the Department for International Cooperation within the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, said research and development is one priority area of collaboration being explored.
 
“China can support Africa in technical areas of research such as having scientists train in institutions such as the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the most important institutes in China for research in preventive diseases,” he told SciDev.Net at the Fourth International Roundtable on China-Africa Health Cooperation in Botswana, which ended last week (May 7).
 
Minghui said that joint research programs between universities and medical schools will benefit both China and Africa, but especially the latter.
 
“We are looking forward to helping to build capacity for research in Africa in this cooperation,” he said. “There are several proposals in different fields of health research that are being looked into.”
 
He said China and its government also encourages technology transfer with Africa. The problem, Minghui said, is that the government does not own the technology, so it can only encourage the research institutes and businesses that do own it, to give Africa access to this knowledge.
 
It was for that reason, he explained, that the government brought pharmaceutical industry representatives to the meeting in Botswana to allow them to interact and explore potential opportunities for technology access and transfer with their African counterparts. More…
 
  
10/05/2013
 
Source: China.org.cn
 
An international survey on domestic violence that interviewed more than 2,000 Chinese found that half of male respondents confessed they have physically or sexually abused their wives or girlfriends.
 
James Lang, program coordinator of Partners for Prevention, a regional joint program by four United Nations agencies including the UN Population Fund, said "some preliminary findings are shocking".
 
The survey showed that one in two men reported using physical or sexual violence against an intimate partner, one in four reported having raped a woman and one in 25 admitted to having participated in gang rape.
 
"Violence is a complex phenomenon. Much of the research has been focused on women, but when we try to come up with solutions to reduce violence, we have to include men. That's the whole motivation behind the study," he said.
 
Lang made the remarks at a UN symposium on Gender-based Violence and Research on Thursday in Beijing.
 
The findings are part of a multi-country comparison study that has interviewed more than 10,000 men and 2,000 women between the ages of 18 and 49 from six Asia-Pacific countries - Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka. More…
 
10/05/2013
 
Source: Africa News
 
GABORONE (Xinhua) -- China has reiterated its commitment to help Africa improve its health sector amid various challenges faced by the African continent through deepening existing health cooperations.
 
In a letter delivered at the open of the 4th international Roundtable on China-Africa Health Cooperation on Monday, Ma Xiaowei, Vice Minister of National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, said China stands ready to share with Africa its health development experiences, and support Africa’s health initiatives.
 
“We need to promote all-around health cooperation between China and Africa. We are willing to work with Africa to promote the China-Africa health cooperation under the framework of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and make it the highlight and priority of the overall China-Africa cooperation,” said Ma.
 
Ma said China is ready to work with both African governments and private institutions while embracing all health stakeholders.
 
“We also hope to see that more Chinese medical institutions, research institutions, universities, and civil society focus on and enter into Africa and make greater contribution to China- Africa health cooperation.”
 
In addition, Ma highlighted that China is willing to work with African countries closely on cooperation projects in WHO and other multilateral organizations so that the international health resources could be used in a just and balanced manner and that China and Africa could tackle the global health challenges together under new circumstances.
 
“We will actively explore the coordinated efforts with WHO, UNAIDS and other international organizations, and support new measures and initiatives for Africa’s health development.”
 
For his part, Botswana’s health minister John Seakgosing said at the launch that since inception in 2009, the Roundtable on China-Africa health collaboration has set the tone for increased dialogue and cooperation between China and Africa. More…
 
09/05/2013
 
Source: Global Times
 
HIV carriers and people with sexually transmitted diseases (STD) will be able to take up teaching posts in Guangdong Province from September 1, according to a recently revised regulation from the provincial education authority.
 
The Department of Education of Guangdong Province published the regulation on the physical conditions of applicants for teaching posts on April 16. It no longer stipulated that those with HIV or STDs are prohibited from the teaching profession, despite an earlier draft regulation published at the beginning of the year in which the ban was still listed.  
 
In 2007, Guangdong began implementing a trial regulation on the physical conditions of applications for teachers, in which HIV carriers and people with STDs were automatically disqualified from teaching positions. 
 
When the draft regulation was initially published to get public feedback, anti-discrimination NGOs protested that the ban on HIV carriers was still included.
 
NGOs stressed the draft regulation violated the State Council's regulation on guaranteeing equal employment rights to HIV carriers, and said the disease cannot be transmitted to students in daily school life.
 
A teacher from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School in Zhongshan, Liu Jiajie said that the new regulation fulfilled the protection of equal rights for people with HIV or STDs, the Zhongshan Economic Daily reported recently.
 
The report also quoted a local primary school teacher, Qiu Yunlai, as saying that students could not be infected with STDs during teaching activities.
 
However, parents of local students do not seem to be as well informed of the actual risks involved as teachers are.
 
"Imagine if your kid's teacher is an HIV carrier or has an STD, wouldn't you worry?" said a father surnamed Huang. More…
 
08/05/2013
 
Source: Sina English
 
Economic development researchers in the United States unveiled a database of China's aid to Africa.
The study and database by the Washington-based Center for Global Development and AidData, a research project, includes 1,673 Chinese development finance projects worth $75 billion in 50 African countries from the years 2000-2011.
 
The Chinese figures, using standard measures of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Other Official Finance (OOF), are roughly on par with U.S. aid to Africa during the same period, the Center for Global Development said.
 
"This topic arouses very strong reactions, positive and negative, and people are very polarized in their strong opinions," said Brad Parks, executive director of AidData and a researcher at the College of William and Mary.
 
DIVERSITY OF PROJECTS
 
When the research team approached China's Ministry of Commerce, which oversees main components of the country's aid program, the answer they got was, "Everyone who needs to know about our generosity already knows," Parks said.
 
But Parks said one stereotype about China in Africa - that Beijing focuses on resource extraction and big infrastructure projects like roads, dams and stadiums - partly unravels in the face of the newly compiled data.