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China: Free Detained AIDS Activist (August 2008) -- The Chinese government should immediately release prominent AIDS advocate Duan Jun (段军), Asia Catalyst said today.
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China: Expanding Crackdown on Health Websites (March 2008) -- Chinese authorities have shut down two popular websites for people with AIDS and hepatitis, and threatened the shutdown of a third unless it removes “illegal information”, Asia Catalyst said today.
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An Appeal to the Chinese State to Rapidly Introduce Second-Line Anti-HIV Drugs -- (December 2007) -- Open letter from the Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism AIDS Working Group, translated by Asia Catalyst.
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China’s New HIV Blood Products Policy May Save Lives -- (New York, September 25, 2007)—China’s new plans to require central screening of all blood products for the AIDS virus is an important step toward national blood safety, and may save lives, Asia Catalyst said today.                        
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China Must Address Blood Safety, Compensate HIV Victims -- (New York, September 6, 2007)—China needs urgent international assistance to upgrade the safety of its blood supply, and should establish a national fund to compensate people infected with HIV through blood transfusions, Asia Catalyst said today.
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China AIDS Law Conference Canceled -- (Beijing, China, July 28, 2007)—An international conference on AIDS and law to be held in China this week has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances, Asia Catalyst said today. The conference, co-organized by New York-based Asia Catalyst [亚洲促进会] and Beijing-based China Orchid AIDS Projects [东珍], would have brought together fifty international and domestic experts to discuss Chinese and international AIDS law.
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resources

China and Burma -- Download annotated bibliography (December 2007)

AIDS Blood Scandals: What China Can Learn from the World's Mistakes -- Download a pdf of the research report (September 2007)
 中文报告 (pdf)

Law and the Rights of People With HIV/AIDS -- Weblink for the annotated bibliography (July 2007)
As the purpose was to identify international resources that could be helpful to Chinese lawyers and AIDS NGOs, this bibliography includes books, NGO reports, scholarly and law review articles, medical studies of the impact of discrimination on the AIDS epidemic, legal case studies, as well as fact sheets used by AIDS law NGOs to inform HIV-positive clients about their rights.