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China Censors HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary

Posted by Soulskill on from the learn-it-the-hard-way dept.

eldavojohn writes "Amnesty International is reporting an unusual case of censorship in which Chinese police questioned HIV/AIDS workers in China and instructed them to cancel an airing of a documentary made by Aizhixing Institute of Health Education on the disease. The director of that NGO recently left China after constant police harassment. The canceled documentary was about Tian Xi, a patient who contracted HIV by blood transfusion at age 9."

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  1. Re:Health or Politics? by hedwards · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably the fact that it makes the Chinese government look like inept morons. A lot of the disease transmission was due to incompetence by their health authorities in terms of blood transfusion techniques.