By Sara L.M. Davis 

By Meg Davis and Shen Tingting  The following briefly outlines our joint report and conclusions, but first we want to tell you about a community-run HIV testing program right here in Beijing, which has been dealing with these issues on the ground.

For the past few weekends, I've been gradually deleting information from my Facebook account. Each Sunday, a few more photos come down. That's because I read Rebecca MacKinnon's call to arms, Consent of the Networked, which shows that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are acquiring the size and power of nation-states, but without the democratic accountability or transparency citizens may demand of the states that govern them. Mackinnon asks, "How do we make sure that people with power over our digital lives will not abuse that power?"

在中国每年重要的政府会议以及法定节假日之前，中国政府都会定期对"社会不良分子"，例如性工作者，药物依赖者等群体进行严打。性工作者、以及女性活动家叶海燕（又称流氓燕）正不断提出严打给低收入性工作者造成的影响，并强调她们所面临的困境。

By Meg Davis

On March 21, we announced that Asia Catalyst's board of directors has generously agreed to match all donations for our "New Generation of Leaders" campaign in 2012 up to a total of $8,000 dollars. This means that donations of $100 are worth $200, and a $500 gift is worth $1,000. Anyone who makes donations of $100 or more receives a gift book featuring photos and narratives about our Chinese partner organizations, as well as a foreword by civil society expert Shawn Shieh (China Development Brief). Funds raised go to our campaign to bring Chinese activists to the International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. and to make our work more sustainable. To give, please go here.

The following is a cross post from the great people at China Geeks. The site offers translation and analysis of modern China.

By Meg Davis

China's annual "two sessions" wrapped up this week, and Chinese lawmakers finally considered proposals to establish a national compensation fund for thousands of victims of the world's largest HIV blood disaster.

Back in 2002, Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote in the New York Timesthat in Henan, "poverty begat AIDS, but AIDS has begotten previously unimaginable poverty." For thousands who received tainted blood transfusions while local authorities covered up the epidemic, the compensation fund would be a life-changer.

By Sara L.M. Davis

In his recent New York Times op-ed, Paul Farmer calls for increased funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He's right, but to really put muscle into the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Global Fund also needs to change its top-down approach to funding, given the reality that HIV/AIDS specifically targets the most marginalized people in any society.

By Sara L.M. Davis

By Sara L.M. Davis

Yu Hua's New York Times op-ed, "In China, Grievances Keep Coming", says that China's petitioning system works alongside the legal system as a parallel way to channel thousands of individual grievances each year. In fact, as Asia Catalyst sees in our work with Chinese AIDS NGOs, the petitioning system undermines social stability.