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Michel Sidibé meets with Li Keqiang, Vice Premiere of China
27 November 2009|
Mr Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director, met with Vice Premiere of the People’s Republic of China Li Keqiang in Beijing during his week long visit to the country.
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Eight-year trend shows new HIV infections down by 17%—most progress seen in sub-Saharan Africa
24 November 2009|
Efforts towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support are bringing AIDS out of isolation. - According to new data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years.
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Michel Sidibé commends China’s progress in AIDS response
24 November 2009|
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, during his visit to China, commended the People’s Republic of China on rises in domestic spending for HIV prevention and care in spite of a global financial crisis where other countries are weighing the risks of making cuts.
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UNAIDS Executive Director visit to China opens with focus on civil society
23 November 2009|
UNAIDS Executive Secretary Michel Sidibé arrived in Shanghai this week on the first leg of a two-city visit to China. During the visit, Michel Sidibé will visit Shanghai and Beijing, launch the 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update and meet with many key partners from Chinese government and civil society. Michel Sidibé began his visit by attending a prize giving ceremony organised by the China office of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, an organization that works to improve treatment conditions for people living with HIV at the local, regional and international levels.
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China’s vocational schools play a key role in AIDS education
16 October 2009|
The Zhaoqing Vocational School in Guangdong, China, provides basic technical skills to several thousand migrant workers a year. It is also one of the first schools of its kind in the country to include information on sexuality, reproductive health and HIV in its core curriculum. This model has now been scaled up nationally with technical assistance from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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'Never abandon, never give up’: ILO film helps China’s migrant workers challenge AIDS stigma
30 April 2009|
Zhang Xiao Hu is one of China’s estimated 200 million migrant workers. He is also one of the stars of ‘Never abandon, never give up’, a short Charlie Chaplin-style film aimed at reducing HIV stigma and promoting condom use among the country’s migrant workers. Beginning on 4 May, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Mega-info Media, the company which runs China’s national railway station television network, will begin screening the film in 500 stations in 450 cities across the country. Over a three month period, 40 million people will have an opportunity to see the film.
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Call for global action on the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis
03 April 2009|
Ministers from the 27 countries with the highest burden of multi-drug resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) have jointly endorsed a Call for Action on TB control and care to urgently address this alarming threat. The meeting in Beijing, China, on 1-3 April 2009, was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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China to tackle HIV incidence amongst MSM
16 January 2009|
China announced in 2008 plans for an extensive programme to tackle sharply rising rates of HIV amongst men who have sex with men (MSM), in the latest sign that the country may be starting to face up to a crisis which long seemed taboo.
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"What role can the law play?"
14 November 2008|
During his recent trip to Beijing as a guest of UNAIDS, Justice Edwin Cameron of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals used every opportunity to raise the question, “What role can the law play in China in response to HIV?”
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Justice Edwin Cameron adds a new dimension to China - Africa relations
31 October 2008|
The South African Supreme Court Judge Edwin Cameron visited China from 27th to 31st October at the invitation of China’s Ministry of Health and UNAIDS. Through his visit, he set out to support the response to AIDS in China with a special focus on legal issues, discrimination and rights of people living with HIV.
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UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy Dr Nafis Sadik urges a broader approach to AIDS in China
24 October 2008|
While in Beijing to give a keynote on HIV and Gender at the High-Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy Dr Nafis Sadik also gave a public lecture under the theme of “know your epidemic,” urging a broader approach to AIDS in China.
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Focus on China’s AIDS response
19 September 2008|
With an estimated 700,000 people living with HIV China’s HIV prevalence remains low – estimated at less than 0.1 per cent of the total population – but the epidemic continues to grow in all parts of the country. Most of the new HIV infections are related to sexual transmission and injecting drug use.
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UNAIDS recognizes leaders in China’s AIDS response
17 September 2008|
Progress in scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support is underway in China thanks in part to the growing involvement of China’s leaders in the AIDS response. UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot acknowledged the contributions of nine such individuals during his official visit to China this week, 16-19 September, by presenting them with the UNAIDS’ “Award for Outstanding Contributions to the AIDS Response”.
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HIV prevention in Olympic Villages
14 August 2008|
As part of a joint HIV prevention campaign which will run throughout the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, free condoms will be made available in Olympic Villages; and athletes will be educated about HIV and encouraged to be ambassadors of the AIDS response.
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When red ribbon meets Olympics
11 August 2008|
A range of initiatives by UNAIDS in China in partnership with the Chinese Government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the run-up to the 2008 Games illustrate how sport can break down barriers, fight discrimination and make a difference in the AIDS response.
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The UN Secretary General visits Red Ribbon Centre Beijing
09 July 2008|
The UN Secretary General visited Ditan hospital and Red Ribbon centre in Beijing to discuss discrimination issues and HIV treatment with people living with HIV and hospital staff.
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Olympics 2008: AIDS awareness training for young volunteers in China
25 June 2008|
Ahead of this summer’s 2008 Olympic Games, the United Nations in China has teamed up with people living with HIV to train Olympic volunteers on HIV prevention and counter discrimination in collaboration with Beijing Youth League, Red Cross Society of China and Marie Stopes International China.
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Sport and HIV prevention
09 October 2007|
With the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games less than a year away, sporting fever is gripping China and the surrounding countries.
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AIDS: everybody’s business
12 September 2007|
Finding innovative solutions to key health challenges to ensure the long-term economic development and well being of nations worldwide was the focus for business leaders attending the three-day meeting of New Champions, which took place in Dalian in the People’s Republic of China from 6 to 8 September 2007.
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China: UNAIDS awards leadership excellence
17 July 2007|
UNAIDS today acknowledged good progress that has been made in China’s response to AIDS, presenting special awards to China’s Vice Minister of Health, Dr Wang Longde and Professor Zhang Beichuan from Qingdao University, for their leadership on AIDS issues.

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