On April 28, Asia Catalyst hosted a panel at NYU School of Law on pediatric AIDS in China featuring Meg Davis, Lauren Burke, Joanne Csete and Ken Legins, and moderated by Jerome A. Cohen. The panel also announced the launching of our report I Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment for Children in China.
[NEWS] Asia Catalyst Launches Report on Barriers to AIDS Treatment for Children in China
[:en]Asia Catalyst announces the launch of a new report on access to treatment for children with HIV/AIDS, I Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment For Children in China.
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new report on access to treatment for children with HIV/AIDS, I
Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment For Children
in China.
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[EVENT] The Morning After at Asia Catalyst
[:en]The Morning After— Thanks to everyone who came out for Asia Catalyst’s speed-dating on Monday night. Thirty courageous men and women put on their game faces and met fellow 25 to 35-year-old progressives. Their friends joined in the after-party, and together we raised $680 for our campaign for kids with AIDS in China.
To all of you who decried the 35-year-old age limit as unfair, and those who demanded men-dating-men and women-dating-women events, we hear you, and promise we’ll have more speed-dating for progressives soon. (Just remember – if things go well, we’ll be expecting a nice big piece of wedding/commitment ceremony cake at Asia Catalyst.)
Big Pharma and AIDS in China
Speaking of speed-dating, that’s what one blogger was reminded of when listening in on U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s Senate confirmation hearing – which lasted just 48 minutes. Apparently, the Senate wants him to get right down to work. Let’s hope that his to-do list includes overhauling the administration’s past policy on compulsory licensing of AIDS drugs by developing countries.
[NEWS] Put People with AIDS in China’s Congress
[: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.
[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.
