Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2006. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2006. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia - November 27, 2006
Chinese authorities are wary of organisations they cannot directly control, such as independent activist groups, and were slow to acknowledge the existence of an epidemic of AIDS, which still carries political and social stigma in China.
Wan Yanhai, director of Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education, was released on his fourth day of detention and was forced to postpone the conference "Blood Safety, AIDS and Human Rights" originally scheduled to be held in Beijing from Nov. 25-30, the institute said.
No reason was given for Wan's detention or release.
The institute called for the release of another activist and three AIDS patients. It was unclear why they were detained.
In April, police in China's financial hub Shanghai broke up a news conference by a group of haemophiliacs who say they contracted HIV/AIDS through contaminated blood transfusions.
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