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 | AIDS Fight in Mainland China: Chinese AIDS sufferers comfort each other on stage as they talk about their experience, during a gathering in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, to mark World AIDS Day, December 1, 2003. Three years after an AIDS scandal in Henan Province was revealed after blood selling schemes infected thousands of people, the government has recognized the need to help those effected by AIDS, but critics say more needs to be done. click to open  |  | AIDS Fight in Mainland China: Bill Clinton speaking at an anti-AIDS conference in Beijing Nov 11th 2003. click to open  |  | AIDS Fight in Mainland China: Deaths and new cases of HIV /AIDS reached new highs in 2003 and are set to rise further as the epidemic keeps a stranglehold on sub-Saharan Africa and advances across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. New global estimates released November 25, 2003 based on improved data show about 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, including an estimated 2.5 million children under 15 years old. A Chinese medical worker hands out leaflets on AIDS to migrant workers at a train station in Guangzhou, the capital of China's southern province of Guangdon, November 24, 2003. click to open  |  | AIDS Fight in Mainland China: A schoolboy looks at the AIDS display in Beijing on World AIDS Day, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1998. According to the China Daily newspaper, Chinese medical experts predict the number of HIV/AIDS cases in China may exceed 1 million by 2000, unless effective action is taken to prevent its spread. click to open  |
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