Chinese blood brokers fuel HIV crisis

[dArKeR]

China refuses to face growing HIV crisis

This is Xiongqiao village in Henan province, the ground zero of arguably the world's worst HIV/Aids epidemic, with up to a million people infected in this single province through a vast, largely unregulated blood-selling operation.

Chang Sun's wife is HIV positive. So is his mother. So is his aunt. So is his cousin and his cousin's wife. So is the woman next door and, probably, so is her husband. In fact, it is quite possible that almost every adult and many of the children in his small, remote village are infected.

And then, there are those who lie in the flat, brown vegetable fields, which are steadily filling with mossy green burial mounds.

Among them is Chang's father, who died of Aids last year, and his three-year-old daughter, who succumbed the year before that. His first wife is there too -- she threw herself down the village well in 2000 after a doctor told her she was no longer worth treating because she had the virus.

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And American corporations, American CEOs, embrace Chinese leaders, political/business, who allow this to happen! Where are Bush American morals?

[NickB79]

1. Asia is predicted to surpass Sub-Saharan Africa in ~15-20 yrs

For total HIV cases. The World Health Org. released a report a year ago stating that, if nothing is done to slow the spread of HIV, Asian countries would have a greater combined number of HIV+ patients than African countries. Their estimates were that, by 2025, between 150-200 MILLION people around the world would be infected, with 80-100 million in China and India vs. 75 million in Africa. This is not looking pretty.