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Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - August 6, 2004
Arrested: Two HIV-positive Chinese villagers are being detained for leading a group of HIV-positive people into a hospital in Henan province to protest against the country's treatment of HIV-positive people, a Chinese Aids advocate said last Sunday.
The two were arrested in early July and are expected to remain in detention for 30 days, said an Aids activist.
The province gained international attention in the early 1990s after it was discovered that farmers there were among hundreds of thousands of poor Chinese who contracted HIV through a government-sponsored blood collection programme.
"The villagers were trying to get the government to admit that they had been wronged and hoped that they would get a fair answer to what had happened to them," the activist said.
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