[:en]This week’s blog entry is an open letter from AIDS activists Li Xige and Tian Xi calling on the National People’s Congress to appoint people with HIV/AIDS as representatives. The authors invoke Party quotes to support their argument. The demand (which comes all the way at the end) breaks new ground. Currently, there are no HIV-positive representatives in China’s Congress – or, that is, none that we know of.
Advocacy note: Hope and change?
[:en]What does an Obama administration mean for advocates of human rights in China? As the President and Secretary of State unpack their boxes in their new offices, this has become a favorite subject of debate at China human rights gatherings.
[NEWS] Treatment…and rumors of treatment
[:en]Word has it that China may finally be about to provide second-line treatment to some people with HIV/AIDS.
On a recent trip to China, people with AIDS told AC that roughly one in five of the people they knew living with HIV were at the point where they needed second-line treatment. Duan Jun, an activist from Henan province, said that roughly 40 percent of the people he knew needed second-line. Those numbers are deeply worrying. Just a year ago, we translated a letter from a group of Chinese AIDS activists demanding second-line treatment immediately.
[RESOURCE] Site Links Chinese Activists with Peers Across Borders
Asia Report (亚洲调查), a new Chinese-language website, will link Chinese nonprofit groups with partners in Asia, Asia Catalyst (亚洲促进会) said today. Read more(pdf).
[UN SUBMISSION] Asia Catalyst, IHRA and HRW on the Rights of Injection Drug Users in China
Submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. Download the PDF.
