[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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[:zh]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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[REPORT] The Story of Xiao Liu

[:en]By Lauren Burke

April 18, 2009

During the summer of 2008, I traveled around China meeting with HIV-positive children to discuss the barriers they faced in accessing treatment. Xiao Liu, a thirteen-year-old patient in a Beijing hospital, was one of the last children I met. In his hospital room with green walls, Xiao Liu handed me a notebook

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[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.

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[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.

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