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...TIME accompanied Ho and his team from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) for two weeks earlier this year as he traveled from Kunming, the cosmopolitan capital of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Secret Plague | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...Kunming, Yunnan The neatly dressed husband and wife are in their 50s and comfortingly average looking. Their once-smooth dark skin is now veined and burnished to a proud sheen, reflecting the decades of hard work they have put into raising a family, earning their salaries and, now, battling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Secret Plague | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...person, accompanied by snacks of seeds, figs and nuts. There's also a tea ceremony and tasting session on Tuesday afternoons for $24 a head. And if you're looking to win over your bosses and business associates, presentation boxes of pu er tea-leaf molds from Yunnan province make decidedly tasteful gifts, priced from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Kind of Brew | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...film centers on an idealistic Chinese antidrug cop (Vicky Zhao Wei) in Yunnan province who becomes emotionally entangled with a handsome stranger (Hong Kong's Nicholas Tse, with sideburns at proper idol-length). Tse turns out to be a drug smuggler, and because carnally cavorting with convicted criminals is a no-no in the Public Security Bureau, Goddess abruptly switches gears to an '80s cop-revenge drama, complete with shootouts and children in peril. All that's missing is Mel Gibson and Danny Glover engaging in witty repartee and senseless violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Hurts | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...work, after all, is just beginning. Ho's team in New York City has analyzed the first 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Secret Plague | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

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