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...Yunnan province, where his drug-treatment and vaccine projects are based, to the remote border town of Ruili, where heavy heroin trafficking and a thriving sex trade create a perfect HIV breeding ground, to Beijing, for his meetings with party leaders, including the newly appointed Minister of Health, Wu Yi. Everywhere Ho went, his mission was the same: to persuade Chinese officials to step up their modest anti-AIDS efforts and commit the resources necessary to launch a comprehensive nationwide program, modeled on the projects he has begun in Yunnan...
...enlisted the support of the newly appointed director of the province's Bureau of Health, Chen Juemin. Chen, to Ho's relief, is intent on addressing the AIDS epidemic in his province and is eager to have Yunnan serve as a testing ground for programs that Minister of Health Wu in Beijing will consider for the rest of the country. "This situation will not just go away," Chen told TIME. "We probably lost a chance [of controlling AIDS] because we did not open up publicly about our HIV work in the early 1980s. We didn't realize then that...
...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...
...Wu fired an even...
Ryan was quick to point out the similarities between Wu this year and Klein last year...