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+).
[URGENT APPEAL] Tian Xi Expected Out from Prison
According to friends of Chinese AIDS activist Tian Xi, he is expected to complete his prison sentence and be released on August 18, 2011. His family income is quite low, and they have no way to meet his medical costs. Friends and family have issued a call for donations to the following account.
Account name: TIAN Xi
Bank: Bank of China
Runan Branch 中国银行汝南支行
Account number: 254608370972
[NEWS] Law Chokes NGOs’ Foreign Funding
By Peter Ford
Sitting in a bare office behind an anonymous steel door, Yu Fangqiang
feels under siege.
His small nongovernmental organization, Yirenping, has enjoyed
remarkable success in helping HIV and hepatitis B sufferers fight
discrimination by Chinese employers, universities, and government
departments. For this challenge to the authorities, though, the group is
paying a high price.
Last year, police raided Yirenping’s Beijing office and confiscated
all its publicity material and legal aid brochures – hence the empty
bookshelves. In March, officials subjected their accounts to an
unusually prolonged investigation and warned them of more to come.
Now, new government regulations are starving Yirenping and other
controversial NGOs of funds.
“I am very worried about our future,”
says Mr. Yu, Yirenping’s chief coordinator. “I’m afraid we may have to
close.”
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor.
