Chinese law addresses AIDS for first time ever in legal amendments
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China's lawmakers have addressed the AIDS threat directly for the first time ever in a sign the government hopes to curb the disease before it becomes an epidemic.
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The world marked AIDS Day on Wednesday,  promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease  that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined  to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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China is moving in the right direction in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a top U.N. official said on Friday, but needs more education to combat discrimination and stigma, particularly in the nation's vast interior.
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HIV carriers in China may have a chance to become civil servants under a new health standard for recruitment, reported China Daily on Saturday.
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China has approved human testing of a domestically developed Aids vaccine and pledged to speed up approvals of new drugs to fight the disease.
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The proportion of females among those infected with HIV/AIDS in China jumped to 27.8 percent in 2006 from 19.4 percent in 2000, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
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BEIJING  - The head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria praised China Tuesday for its efforts in addressing HIV/AIDS, but warned that any let up could prove catastrophic.
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The government recommended for the first time Thursday that people exposed to the AIDS virus from rapes, accidents or occasional drug use or unsafe sex receive drug cocktails that can keep them from becoming infected.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd, L) shakes hands with an AIDS patient in a Beijing hospital on Nov. 30, 2004.-- Xinhua. On the eve of the World AIDS Day, Chinese President Hu Jintao shook hands with AIDS patients
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China is expected to pass its first anti-drug law this week to combat drug-related crimes and reduce the number of abusers, state media said on Sunday.
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China has taken significant steps to fight HIV and AIDS, but still must reach out to more patients in the vast country and overcome a lack of cooperation from some government officials, a U.N. AIDS official said Tuesday.
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In a public display of commitment to fighting the disease a day before World AIDS Day, state media reported on Tuesday that China&#39;s President Hu Jintao shook hands with patients during a visit to a hospital in the capital.
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The Chinese legislature has announced plans to reform the reeducation-through-labor system used to punish minor criminal offenders.
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The Chinese government remarkably increased its budget for HIV/AIDS prevention and control annually, according to the China&#39;s Population and Development Country Reportwhich was issued Tuesday.
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By Charles Hutzler  BEIJING  --  Chinese lawmakers today formally introduced a hotly debated law that marks one of the most explicit attempts to legally protect personal wealth by a government that only a generation ago preached communist egalitarianism.
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China's leaders are displaying renewed confidence in their ability to control political debate, putting to a vote a toughly contested law on property rights at this year's session of the national legislature.
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Chinese health authorities have pledged to do more to prevent babies being infected by their mothers with the HIV virus during delivery.