AFP
This photo taken on August 22, 2012, shows a researcher working inside a laboratory of the National Centre for Aids/STD Prevention and Control, a branch of the Chinese Center For Disease Control.
Chinese villager Wang Pinghe (ping-huh) wants the tumor in his liver
removed before it becomes life-threatening. But the 28-year-old knows it will
be hard to find a hospital that will do the operation - because he has Aids. Hospitals
in China routinely reject people with HIV for surgery out of fear of exposure
to the virus or harm to their reputations. China has significantly improved
care for Aids patients, but the lingering stigma sets back those advances. The
stigma against people with HIV runs especially deep in China, from being unofficially
barred from government jobs to being expelled from school. Now, as more people
rail against the myriad inequalities that plague Chinese society, people with
HIV are increasingly willing to assert their right to fair treatment.
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