Задержание Ван Янхая привлекло
внимание к СПИДу в Китае
Ван Янхай был задержан на месяц (25 августа - 20 сентября)
после разглашения им государственной тайны, касавшейся торговли кровью
в провинции Энань (Унань? = Henan, англ.) и заражения ВИЧ многих сельских
жителей. Арест произвёл настоящий фурор и сделал Вана героем. После своего
освобождения он организовал первую в КНР неправительственную организацию
по борьбе со СПИДом (Beijing AIDS Action Health Education Institute). В
интервью газете Ван Янхай призвал власти к сотрудничеству против угрозы
СПИДа.
San Francisco Chronicle, 13 ноября
Торговля кровью способствует
распространению ВИЧ
Закон 1988 года запрещает неорганизованный сбор крови. Правительственные
органы определяют квоты, по которым предприятия сдают кровь государству.
Из-за того, что некоторые предприятия не могут выполнить плановые задания,
им приходится обращаться на тереврй рынок крови, где гигиенические нормы
не высоки и повторное использование игл скорее правило, чем исключение.
По некоторым оценкам (линк к ЦРУ) число ВИЧ-инфицированных в Китае через
10 лет составит от 10 до 15 млн чел
Wall Street Journal, 14 ноября
Нафиз Саддык выразила сомнения
в адекватности прогнозов СПИДа
Нафиз Саддык (специальный советник генерального секретаря ООН
по ВИЧ/СПИД) выразила сомнения в адекватности прогнозов национального
совета по разведке США, по её мнению расчёты американцев не принимают
во внимание те меры, которые предпринимает индийское правительство по борьбе
с эпидемией.
Hindu,
16 ноября
China Looking to Foreign Countries
to Help Control Spread of HIV/AIDS
Chinese Health Minister Zhang Wenkang on Monday announced that
China is looking to form partnerships with foreign countries to help curb
its HIV/AIDS epidemic, Agence France-Presse reports. Zhang said that China
would like to work with other countries to recruit health care workers
and epidemiologists to "prevent and control" HIV/AIDS in the country. He
noted that epidemiologists are particularly important to the country's
HIV/AIDS strategy (Agence France-Presse, 11/4). "China is at a critical
time in HIV/AIDS control since the disease is spreading very rapidly from
those with high-risk behaviors to the common people," Zhang told participants
of the Sino-U.S. Conference on Research and Training in AIDS-Related Areas
(Xinhua News Agency, 11/5). "We now have no time to lose," he added. Agence
France-Presse reports that Zhang's statements mark a break from the government's
"usual reluctance to seek help from abroad" and are another sign that China
is acknowledging the scope of its HIV/AIDS epidemic (Agence France-Presse,
11/4). The United States in June agreed to give China $14.8 million over
five years to help fight AIDS. The United Nations estimates that China
has between 800,000 and 1.5 million HIV-positive people.
Reuters,
11/4
China says needs international
help to fight AIDS
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's health minister has called for
international help in AIDS research and training in a bid to stop the disease
spreading through the world's most populous country, the official China
Daily said on Monday. Prevention efforts in China are lagging behind soaring
demand for AIDS treatment, the newspaper quoted Health Minister Zhang Wenkang
as telling a Sino-US AIDS conference. "China is at a critical time in HIV/AIDS
control since the disease is spreading very rapidly from those with high-risk
behaviours to the common people," he said during the weekend meeting. "We
are especially in urgent need of professionals involved with disease control."
Statistics from the ministry show about one million Chinese have been infected
with HIV since it was first detected in the country in 1985, the newspaper
said. "The infectious figure could expand to ten million by the year 2010
if we fail to take immediate action," the paper quoted Zhang as saying.
"We now have no time to lose." More than 300 experts from China, the United
States and the United Nations attended the conference in Beijing, it said.
US Ambassador Clark Randt was quoted as saying AIDS, which has afflicted
about 60 million people since it first surfaced about 20 years ago, was
a global problem needing global solutions. The United States agreed in
June to give China $14.8 million over five years for AIDS-related research.
The United Nations says China has between 800,000 and 1.5 million people
infected with HIV and about 30,000 have died from the disease.
Detention of Wan Yanhai by Chinese
Officials Brings Attention to, Action on AIDS Epidemic in China
The 31-day detention of Dr. Wan Yanhai, the Chinese AIDS advocate
who was detained by Chinese government officials after publicizing "state
secrets" regarding blood-selling practices in Henan province, has led to
international attention to and Chinese government action on the country's
HIV/AIDS epidemic, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Wan, who first
exposed information about the blood selling practices in Henan, which led
to the HIV infection of many rural Chinese, was detained by government
officials on August 25 and was not released until September 20. Wan's arrest
"catapulted the AIDS epidemic in China onto the world stage," Katie Krauss
of ACT UP/Philadelphia said. According to the Chronicle, the international
"furor" that resulted from Wan's detainment made Wan an "international
hero" and "may have prompted Chinese authorities to take firmer steps"
to fight HIV/AIDS. Since Wan's release, he has successfully registered
the Beijing AIDS Action Health Education Institute as a nongovernmental
organization in China, making the organization legal for the first time.
In addition, China's officials have acknowledged that the country has an
HIV-positive population of more than one million, considered manufacturing
generic HIV/AIDS drugs and announced that China was "eager to work with"
foreign HIV/AIDS experts. "It is better for our government to understand
that we can be friends in the fight against discrimination and AIDS. This
is our common goal," Wan said in an interview with the Chronicle, adding,
"We are now just in the beginning. It's a new start"
Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/13
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