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...right-wing Law and Justice party submitted the motion following a series of high-profile murders. Surveys show that 77% of Poles support the death penalty for the most serious crimes. Mining Tragedy CHINA The death toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in central Henan province continued to rise, with 77 confirmed fatalities and hopes fading of finding any of the 71 missing alive. China's mining industry is notoriously dangerous; 4,153 miners were killed in the first nine months of this year. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN? Ostalgia Calls Trabant fan Graham Goodall is seeking...
China may finally be coming clean about its burgeoning AIDS problem, but health officials in the ravaged province of Henan are still behaving as if the epidemic were a dirty secret. Last month, more than 100 armed police stormed the NGO-run Orchid Orphan School in the city of Shangqiu, a boarding school for AIDS orphans (some of whom are HIV-positive), and whisked the students away on a truck. Two volunteers were detained for "causing social disorder." The local health bureau says the school was closed because it never applied for an operating license. But school founder...
...Case in point: even though international estimates put Henan's HIV patient count at more than 1 million, a provincial health official told a Bangkok AIDS conference last month that there were only about 50,000 sufferers. Despite a decree from Premier Wen Jiabao that poor peasants should receive free treatment, a dozen HIV-positive villagers told TIME they had never received any medicine. Last week, 130 Henan peasants congregated in front of a local mayor's office to demand treatment. Li Dan also lodged a formal complaint with the Shangqiu health bureau asking for his orphan school...
...Henan and its neighbors, Ho has decided, cannot wait for his program to become established in Yunnan. In his proposal to the Ministry of Health, Ho has modified his plan to include testing, treatment and prevention projects for Henan and Yunnan. "They desperately want help," he says of the doctors he met in Wenlou. "They obviously have the data on AIDS patients but are afraid to show...
...break through this barrier of fear, Ho has encouraged Health Minister Wu to visit the AIDS villages in Henan. Wu's visit would be the first by someone in her post and would send, Ho hopes, a powerful message that the government is more interested in controlling the epidemic than in assigning blame. Wu was appointed Health Minister when her predecessor, with whom Ho had begun his project, was fired by the Communist Party for mishandling the SARS outbreak?denying its existence until the epidemic was out of hand. "SARS was a big kick in the pants for China...