Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2005. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2005. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
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Reuters NewMedia - November 17, 2005
The official China Daily said on Monday the booming southern province of Guangdong was to build at least two prisons exclusively for HIV/AIDS prisoners. "China has no plans to build special prisons for AIDS convicts," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a news conference in Beijing.
"China will increase facilities in the present prisons to provide free examinations and treatment for AIDS prisoners in order to give them better medical care."
China says it has 840,000 HIV-AIDS cases among its 1.3 billion population, but experts say at least a million poor farmers were infected in botched blood-selling schemes in the 1990s in the central Henan province alone.
A top Chinese HIV expert recently echoed a grim U.N. warning that the number of HIV-AIDS cases could reach 10 million in China by 2010 if no effective measures are taken to curb the disease.
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