Saturday, February 27, 2010

My Skin Color Changes In Some Parts



defender of China AIDS patients narrated their ordeal on TV


Gynecologist advocate the rights of AIDS patients in China, Gao Yaojie of 82, explained in a documentary to be aired tomorrow in Hong Kong the ordeal that happened in his country until he went into exile for half a year in the U.S..
"I cry every morning when I wake up, and I miss all patients and HIV orphans. To me are like my own children. But they are treated as cattle, not as human beings, "said the old woman RTHK chain from exile in Texas.
Since discovered in 1996 the massive infection of peasants by a government campaign to buy blood in his home province, Henan (central China ), Gao became a leading figure in the struggle to protect the rights of those affected in your country.

no family, no country has


the old woman who was forced into exile last August to document the situation compelling than live infected by blood-buying plan promoted by the government of Henan in the mid-1990.
explains that since then, was continually harassed by the authorities Chinese for insisting that transmission by blood transfusion was one of the most common forms of infection in China, and no contact between homosexuals or drug addicts sharing needles, and assures the Government.
As reported in the newspaper "South China Morning Post, which has had access to the documentary, Gao now lives with a Chinese family in an undisclosed location in Texas, but said he is torn in exile after being abandoned by her own family.
"I feel safe and comfortable here, but my son did not treat me well. I had to travel alone to the U.S., because I lost my home in my country. My kids have their own family, and no one helps me," says the widow accused by his son endangering the whole family by insisting on his charitable work.
In a 2007 interview, Gao estimated at millions of deaths from AIDS in China, compared to 800,000 affected defends Beijing, according to his experience of 16 years in provinces such as Henan, Sichuan, Guangxi and Guangzhou. Independent studies
estimated at up to 4 million people affected by AIDS and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Gao
fear not to return to their country after U.S. tests carried photographs and blood with the help of their neighbors in Guangzhou (capital of Canton), where he hid in the last six months before leaving China for organizing your e files stories about their patients.

Source: World

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