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...donated blood, many said yes, many, many times--30, 40, sometimes 100 to 200 times," Gui recalls. Tragically, the needles used--some in the hands of entrepreneurial middlemen known locally as "blood heads"--were not always sterile. All it would need for the virus to take hold was one HIV-positive donor...
...took 11 samples from the villagers, but could afford to test only six of them, with 1,600 yuan ($200) out of his own pocket. All were positive for HIV. But Henan health officials, reluctant to expose an outbreak that originated in a government-sponsored program, were slow to respond and refused to allow Gui to return to the villages. So he and three students sneaked back in during a long weekend holiday when he knew the gatekeepers might be off duty. For three days he went house to house, collecting samples, counseling patients and explaining how the virus...
With the central government now involved, local authorities could no longer hide what the world has come to know as China's AIDS villages. Today a health clinic in the first village Gui visited provides free HIV testing and antiretroviral treatments, and a charity home shelters orphans and the elderly whose caretakers have died of AIDS...
...clinic at Wuhan University is now recognized as a national training center for AIDS doctors and has pioneered in China use of a three-drug combination therapy for HIV-positive pregnant women and pediatric formulations of AIDS drugs for children. With medicine donated by the Clinton Foundation, Gui will offer treatment without charge to 200 infected infants over the next few years. Those children will be Gui's legacy, living reminders of the doctor's bravery and dedication. "The road ahead is still very long," he says. But thanks to Gui, China has taken the important first steps...
...Thim without Anne is just another local NGO leader struggling to start an organization," says Joel Charny, a former member of the CHC board. "Anne without Thim is a Harvard researcher without the connections to get things done." Today CHC is adapting its TB program for Cambodia's growing HIV problem and launching ambitious clinical trials, led by Goldfeld, that will study how to treat patients simultaneously suffering from both diseases. This is CHC at its best--harnessing grassroots programs to find answers to vital medical questions, which can then be used to help the very patients for whom...