本月，中国的立法者将要审阅一份开创性的提案。这份提案提议为中国几万名血液污染受害者提供补偿。亚洲促进会今天发布了一份研究报告，表明由于受害者无法通过其他途径获得补偿，中国急需建立一个补偿基金来处理这个问题。
[NEWS] Asia Pacific Network of PLHIV Describes Funding Crisis
The American Foundation for AIDS Research’s TREAT Asia features an interview with Shiba Phurailatpam, director of the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+).
[COMMENTARY] China Issues New Five-Year HIV/AIDS Action Plan
By Hou Ye
This week, China’s State Council published its 12th Five Year Action Plan of China HIV/AIDS Control, Prevention and Treatment. The new plan lays out an assessment of HIV/AIDS in China and government strategy to combat the epidemic.
The plan states that sex has become the main vector of HIV transmission and that the epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased significantly. Spousal transmission has also increased. In the areas lacking
prevention of mother-to-child transmission efforts (PMTCT) are not conducted, the rates of mother-to-child transmission are high.
[NEWS] 100+ Vietnamese PLHIV Groups Oppose TPFTA
Reposted from Peter Maybarduk at Public Citizen:
Today, as the 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations kicked off in Melbourne, Australia, the Vietnam Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (VNP+) released the “VNP+ Declaration on the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement and Access to Medicines in Vietnam.”
[NEWS] CAP+关于停止艾滋病检测实名制立法活动的呼吁
China Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (CAP+) Statement on
Real-Name Testing Policy for HIV/AIDS
For those following the uproar about proposed policies in Guangxi, endorsed the Ministry of Health, that would institute real-name HIV testing and compulsory partner notification (summary on our blog, here); below is a strong statement with reference to Chinese laws by China’s national association of people living with HIV/AIDS. A short summary in English follows.
