Thursday, April 20

Free Speech Still Needed In China

The Chinese police in Shanghai broke up a news conference by AIDS/HIV victims. The press conference was take their legal battle to the public. See these people contracted AIDS/HIV through contaminated blood transfusions, and they have been trying to get compensated for this.

The Chinese government has been behind from the beginning with AIDS/HIV, which has brought them to this.

(Reuters)Political sensitivity and social stigma still surround AIDS in China, and the government's slowness to acknowledge the epidemic contributed to its spread, especially in the central province of Henan, where in the 1990s millions sold blood to unsanitary clinics.

There were about 25,000 deaths from AIDS across China in 2005. In January, Beijing lowered by around 30 percent the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS to 650,000, yet warned against complacency, saying the figure was still rising with many people unaware of the danger.
AIDS, SARS and Bird Flu. China needs to get it's shit together if they want to be perceived as a world power