He doesn't even need to tell prospective employers about his disease.

    "The name of my home village on my ID card will scare employers, since Wenlou Village is universally known as an AIDS village," he said.

    Contaminated blood transfusions given to poor farmers before 2000 have spread the disease in rural areas in central China's Henan Province. In Wenlou, the epicenter of the problem, 70 percent of the families in the village have infected members, saidZhou Yunyun, a village official.

    He said there were 368 HIV carriers in the village, or about 10percent of the population, as of November. No new AIDS cases have been d...]]> Lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:12:27 +0800 /articles/08/1202/165172/MTY1MTcyKJstOWeO.html     BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- City statistics indicate that there are 755 newly diagnosed HIV carriers in the Chinese capital, down 22.4 percent year-on-year.

    Up to October, Beijing had registered 5,635 HIV/AIDS patients, of whom 219 were foreigners, 1,184 local residents and 4,232 people from other parts of China, according to a report on Beijing's AIDS prevention work released by the municipal health bureau on Nov. 26.

    The report said sexual transmission has overtaken intravenous injection as the main channel of contracting the virus for the first time. The cases of HIV infection have also been rising among gay men.

    The capital has set up nine methadone clinics to contain the spread of HIV, in hopes that patients will stop using intravenous drugs. Anyone aged 20 or older can visit the clinics for 10 yuan (1.45 U.S. dollars) per day.

  &...]]> Lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:12:23 +0800 /articles/08/1202/165171/MTY1MTcx5LBu7uy9.html     BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- An AIDS vaccine developed by Chinese scientists has completed initial clinical trials with "good results." But researchers cautioned that further studies need to be done to verify its effectiveness.

    Prof. Shao Yiming with China's National Center for Disease Control and Prevention said here Monday that the first part of the first phase of clinical trails on the vaccine had completed with "safe and good results."

    "Based on these results, we can say that the vaccine is more effective than vaccines that are currently researched overseas," he said at a forum organized by the China Biotechnology Development Center.

    No further details are currently available from the office of Shao, leader of the research team.

    Shao said at the meeting that the second part of the first phase of clinical trials had star...]]> Lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:12:18 +0800 /articles/08/1201/165122/MTY1MTIyFfqQbadU.html     BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Beijing is going to offer spit tests for AIDS/HIV free of charge, instead of the traditional blood tests, early in December, local anti-AIDS official said on Monday.

    The spit test, a newly-developed method of AIDS/HIV virus testing by using oral fluid samples instead of blood, will be offered at three hospitals in the capital city.

    Xiao Dong, director of the Beijing Association of STD & AIDS Prevention and Control, told Xinhua that the Chaoyang Chinese AIDS Volunteer Group, a non-governmental organization, would give out 10,000 spit testing kits donated by Beijing Calypte-Marr Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to Beijing Jing Cheng Skin Diseases Hospital and two community hospitals for free.

    Developed by the American company Calypte Biomedical Corporation, the spit test for AIDS/HIV can have results in about 20 minutes by usi...]]> Lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:11:28 +0800 /articles/08/1201/165100/MTY1MTAwY4pc4ygy.html Lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:26:06 +0800 /articles/08/1201/165061/MTY1MDYxTiy86kMh.html Lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:40:44 +0800 /articles/08/1201/165012/MTY1MDEyiaKzNkIl.html

    BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- China should step up efforts to eliminate discrimination against HIV positive persons, Bernhard Schwartlander, UNAIDS China Country Coordinator said here on Sunday.

    "The situation (of discrimination against HIV postive persons) is really a cause for concern," said Schwartlander during a publicity campaign organized by the Health Ministry, Red Cross Society of China, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), just one day ahead of the World AIDS Day which falls on December 1. Vol...]]> Lifestyle Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:12:33 +0800 /articles/08/1130/164977/MTY0OTc387qRLFv0.html Lifestyle Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:59:46 +0800 /articles/08/1130/164948/MTY0OTQ4qq3Tl4I6.html ]]> Lifestyle Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:56:01 +0800 /articles/08/1130/164937/MTY0OTM3AjpWE0nO.html     BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's drug safety watchdog on Saturday ordered a nationwide overhaul of intravenous and herbal injections following a series of contamination incidents.

    The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said local bureaus have to finish checks on all injections produced within their respective jurisdictions before the end of the year.

    The filed information should include how an injection was produced, the ingredients, what equipment was used, package suppliers, adverse reactions, data from quality spot-checks and risk evaluation.

    The SFDA hopes the process will rule out hidden safety problems and reduce risks.

    In October, three patients in the southwestern Yunnan Province became sick and another three died after receiving an herbal ciwujia injection produced by the Wandashan Pharmaceutical Compan...]]> Lifestyle Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:10:11 +0800 /articles/08/1129/164872/MTY0ODcyyNNSKU0g.html     BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of gay men who are HIV positive has exploded in China over the past three years, according to the preliminary results from a survey by the Chinese government.

    A nationwide survey on China's gay men showed 4.9 percent were HIV positive, up from 0.4 percent in 2005, said a senior health official here Friday.

    "Sex becomes the major way of AIDS transmission in China and its spread among men having sex with men was worsening notably. I think whether we can well control the AIDS transmission among gays will greatly affect the future of the whole country's battle against the epidemic," said Hao Yang, deputy director of the disease control department under the Ministry of Health.

    According to separate figures also released by the Ministry of Health Friday, 40.4 percent of those who contracted the virus this year were inf...]]> Lifestyle Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:14:51 +0800 /articles/08/1127/164607/MTY0NjA3BOXZaNY2.html Students, professors and parents of the award-winning CFL delegates attended the international leadership exchange program on Tuesday.

The winners and leaders of the CFL and guests invited to give award scholarships pose for a picture at Beijing University on November 25, 2008. This photo was released by Boya Elite. [chinadaily.com.cn] 

"China attaches great importance to the development of education and it has continuously worked for equity in education through improving related laws and policies," Liu said in a keynote speech to the 48th International Conference on Education, organized by UNESCO.

Some 1,500 delegates, including government ministers, experts, representatives of NGOs and UN agencies, are attending the four-day conference, which aims to promote inclusive education through experience sharing.

According to Liu, China has always paid attention to safeguarding the education rights for those who have special needs, especially those who are easily overlooked.

China has also made vigorous efforts to support education in rural are...]]> Lifestyle Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:07:22 +0800 /articles/08/1125/164267/MTY0MjY3eNzzRLyo.html     BEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Beijing's prostitutes still reject the use of condoms despite the growing incidence of sexually-transmitted HIV and AIDS, says a report issued on Tuesday.

    Sexual transmission, for the first time, has replaced intravenous drug using (IDU) as the most common transmission route in the Chinese capital, accounting for 54.6 percent of HIV infections, said Fang Laiying, the municipal Public Health Bureau director.

    Only 46.5 percent of the city's 90,000 sex workers used condoms, said Fang, citing a medium-term assessment report on AIDS prevention and control.

    The HIV infection rate among sex workers was unknown as Beijing had no testing program for them as yet.

    Fang said free condoms were already provided at 22,000 Beijing venues, including hotels and vacation re...]]> Lifestyle Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:12:49 +0800 /articles/08/1125/164244/MTY0MjQ0hv0qlrWP.html Lifestyle Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:55:03 +0800 /articles/08/1125/164195/MTY0MTk19t7yDjOK.html
Entering Jiang Meigui's home, you cannot miss the colorful tote bags piled in the corner. Jiang is not a fashionable collector of bags but a recycling activist. All the carry-all bags are made of hard-to-recycle milk and juice boxes.]]> Lifestyle Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:17:52 +0800 /articles/08/1125/164193/MTY0MTkz9gZPq0HG.html Lifestyle Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:12:01 +0800 /articles/08/1125/164187/MTY0MTg3QciAt0iU.html Lifestyle Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:37:22 +0800 /articles/08/1125/164170/MTY0MTcwhr0B7H83.html More than 2,000 schools in central and western China will share 4.4 billion yuan (US$644 million) from the central budget to improve infrastructure, the Ministry of Education said yesterday.The investment, to be distributed before the end of December, would be used to improve school buildings and add teaching facilities, said spokeswoman Xu Mei.More than 1 million students in the central and western areas, which are less developed than coastal regions, would benefit from the funds, she said.Xu said the funding was made possible after the State Council, the country's Cabinet, decided to allocate 100 billion yuan from the central budget before the end of this year to support infrastructure projects in the areas of housing, education, health care, employment and environmental protection.Of the total investment, 3 billion yuan would be used to build or renovate buildings at 1,600 schools in central and west China. The projects would include new b...]]> Lifestyle Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:02:28 +0800 /articles/08/1124/164019/MTY0MDE54DJ9Np5b.html Lifestyle Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:02:19 +0800 /articles/08/1124/163979/MTYzOTc5iFaxU3XD.html Lifestyle Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:52:18 +0800 /articles/08/1123/163906/MTYzOTA2FvcHsXQb.html
]]> Lifestyle Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:16:05 +0800 /articles/08/1123/163874/MTYzODc0UQ7CEHEe.html Lifestyle Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:26:08 +0800 /articles/08/1121/163605/MTYzNjA1SjtBw46r.html Lifestyle Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:08:08 +0800 /articles/08/1121/163588/MTYzNTg4yrGXuUw1.html "China is emerging as an ever popular destination for American students, with numbers steadily rising over the past few years," Frank Mok, educational resource coordinator of the ACEE, told a press meeting in Beijing.

Now, Jin is paying 2,000 yuan (US$293) a month to live in Shanghai, the country's financial hub, in hopes of securing more interviews.

Job seekers crowd into an employer's stall at the job fair for medicine graduates in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, November 15, 2008. A job fair kicked off here on Saturday with over 5,000 job vacancies provided by more than 100 enterprises. [Xinhua]

Si Yilei, director of the ministry's National Center for Human Resources, said besides the job fairs, the ministry would also provide consultations on job-hunting, give guidance and tra...]]> Lifestyle Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:02:11 +0800 /articles/08/1116/162644/MTYyNjQ0EJQpkqdW.html
More than ten thousand graduates attend a recruitment activity in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on November 15th, 2008. ]]> Lifestyle Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:55:10 +0800 /articles/08/1116/162630/MTYyNjMwu5K2byad.html     SHANGHAI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese health authorities have recalled and sealed more than half of a batch of defective intravenous needles after one snapped and became embedded in a baby's scalp.

    Food and drug supervision administrations in Shanghai and Guangdong have recalled 47,700 disposable needles out of a batch of 90,000 in 15 boxes.

    One box containing 6,000 needles was on sale in Shanghai, but none had been used before the recall.

    However, 42,300 of the 14 boxes of 84,000 needles circulated in Guangdong had been used.

    China's Health Ministry on Friday ordered all medical institutions to stop using and recall the needles made on April 21this year by the Shanghai-based Damei Medicinal Plastic Factory.

    The order came after a maternity and child care center in the south...]]> Lifestyle Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:11:49 +0800 /articles/08/1115/162578/MTYyNTc4PS397lIt.html     BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China saw a growing number of diabetics among children and adolescents in big cities, about 12 percent of whom were found obese, according to the Ministry of Health.

    The ministry released the rate during an event to mark the second United Nations World Diabetes Day, which fell on Friday, with the theme this year of "Diabetes in Children and Adolescents".

    Poor diet and greater awareness of diabetes among parents led to the problem, the ministry said. In Wuhan, capital city of central Hubei province, hospitals recorded more than 600 children and adolescents with diabetes. In 2004, the figure was four.

    China has an estimated 40 million diabetics, according to a survey conducted by the Chinese Medical Association in 2007. Most of these cases were found in cities and affluent rural areas.

    Beijing on...]]> Lifestyle Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:11:19 +0800 /articles/08/1115/162536/MTYyNTM25OtNFJoe.html     BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's health ministry on Friday ordered the country's health institutions to stop using a kind of disposable intravenous needle, after receiving report that a needle snapped and left part of it in the vein of an infant's scalp.

    Local medical departments should assist drug safety departments to recall the batch of disposable intravenous needles made on April 21 this year by the Shanghai-based Damei Medicinal Plastic Factory, the ministry said on its website.

    The recall came after a maternity and child care center in China's eastern province of Guangdong reported the incident on Oct. 17.

    No further information about the infant and its status is immediately available.

    Sample tests conducted by the care center on six needles from the same batch found all six broke easily.

   &...]]> Lifestyle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:10:32 +0800 /articles/08/1114/162492/MTYyNDkyTQOAJQKk.html     BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Beijing on Friday launched a month-long campaign to raise public awareness of diabetes, encouraging healthy lifestyles from a young age as a preventive measure.

    The move was taken to mark the second United Nations World Diabetes Day, which falls on Friday, with the theme this year of "Diabetes in Children and Adolescents."

    The Beijing Municipal Health Bureau on Friday organized a group of medical workers at the Olympic Green to give free advice to the public on prevention and treatment of diabetes.

    The bureau plans to provide free medical consultations in medical centers, and educate the public through TV and radio, newspapers, websites and brochures.

    "About 80 percent of diabetes cases can be avoided as long as people adhere to sound lifestyles," said Health Minister Chen Zhu.

  ...]]> Lifestyle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:15:20 +0800 /articles/08/1114/162422/MTYyNDIyVou4bdfr.html Lifestyle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:53:36 +0800 /articles/08/1114/162416/MTYyNDE2ak0rITcL.html Lifestyle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:13:53 +0800 /articles/08/1114/162403/MTYyNDAzxsNU1XO7.html Lifestyle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:05:55 +0800 /articles/08/1114/162382/MTYyMzgyvuXN3oDd.html Lifestyle Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:42:11 +0800 /articles/08/1114/162359/MTYyMzU5IgDOl1i5.html     BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- A leading German pharmaceutical company on Thursday pledged 13 million yuan (1.9 million U.S. dollars) to help China build 40 haemophilia treatment centers in the next five years.

    Bayer Schering Pharma. plans to set up the centers in 30 major cities and provide medical equipment and supplies, and educational materials for patients.

    Ruan Changgeng, president of the Chinese Society of Hematology (CSH), said the project would make professional haemophilia treatment accessible in provincial cities and help Chinese patients receive more timely medical care.

    The program included upgrading another seven treatment centers and training sessions for patients, doctors and nurses, said Ruan.

    By comprehensively assessing the physical and psychological status of patients and providing self-care training,...]]> Lifestyle Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:12:09 +0800 /articles/08/1113/162301/MTYyMzAxkSbHrBmu.html Lifestyle Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:57:46 +0800