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...Here, unlike in Yunnan, HIV spread not through illegal behavior but through blood donation. In the early 1990s, the Chinese leadership launched a blood drive and paid donors for their plasma. It was a program intended to benefit all Chinese?the poor by giving them a way to supplement their income, and the rest of China by replenishing the national blood banks' dangerously low stocks. "It was like a poverty-relief program," says a Henan resident who gave plasma in 1993 and became infected. Through campaigns in the villages and schools, the government encouraged rural farmers and factory workers...
...people and their government to openly address a sexually transmitted disease are too deeply rooted for one man to change. A recent survey by Futures Group Europe and Horizon Research Group revealed that 20% of Chinese still have not heard of AIDS and that only 5% have had an HIV test. Ho is convinced that even if just part of his program is put in place, it will save lives. "If we had known how difficult the process was going to be, I'm not sure we would have embarked on it," he says, reflecting on his work...
...material from the blood samples. "It looks really good," says Ho, visibly brightening at the prospect of finally starting up his vaccine studies. "Any one of the sites in Yunnan would work well for a vaccine trial." Starting those trials will mean China is that much closer to controlling HIV and slowing the spread of those earthen graves of family members claimed by AIDS...
...years, international health experts have pointed to Thailand as a rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV-positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...
...messages were broadcast on radio and television every two hours. Anti-AIDS messages--often served with a healthy dose of sanuk, the Thai sense of playfulness--were spread in schools, hospitals, police stations and courthouses. After peaking at 143,000 in 1991, the annual number of new cases of HIV infection fell to 19,000 in 2003. That still leaves 600,000 Thais living with HIV or AIDS, but it could have been much, much worse...