As we watch the spectacular Olympics in Beijing, we have to also look at the human rights abuses in a country that, for all its economic prosperity, has done much to conceal horrors such as the AIDS epidemic in its Hunan Province.
I've known about this for some time, but was reminded of it again as I listened to the program "The Story" which broadcasts on National Public Radio. "The Story" focused its August 11 program on a doctor who had to leave China under heat for the work she had done to help AIDS victims in Hunan.
The reason the peasant population of that province is suffering from AIDS is because of the government, who convinced poor farmers to donate their blood, from which officials extracted the plasma, then officials pooled the blood communally (never testing it for any disease, let alone HIV) by blood type and then, here, come here, get your blood back.
This has been practiced through blood collection centers.
If you want to read more about the doctor and her fight, click on this link here.
It's an extremely interesting story.
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-3-26/53326.html
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