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The stage

1. world stage of HIV/AIDS

2. China difference

3. the risk to say their stories

4. epidemic caused by official mismanagement, attempt to cover up, Henan officials say only 11,000 people have been infected. The World Health Organization reports at least 100,000. The true figure may be even higher. The majority of those infected don't even know they have the disease. The epidemic has only just begun.

Chinese Mother Teresa

5. Dr. Gao Yao Hie (Jie) (or Gao Yaojie) 80-year-old, gynecologist from Henan province, first to alarm in 1996,

Gao Yao Jie, won international recognition as well as awards from the central government. At home in Henan, she's treated like a criminal - She's followed, her phone is bugged, her family harassed. Mother Teresa Analyzing her deeds and achievements, John Paul II asked: "Where did Mother Teresa find the strength and perseverance to place herself completely at the service of others? In her youth, she was a rare woman admitted to medical school. She survived Japanese bombing raids during the 1940s and worked delivering babies as an obstetrician in the 1950s. When the famines of the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1960 unleashed mass starvation, Dr. Gao sometimes gave her food ration tickets to emaciated women. During the violent class struggles of the Cultural Revolution from 1965 to 1975 she was labeled a “black element,” a term for members of the former ruling class or rightist intelligentsia. In a 2003 interview, she recalled surviving one night during that era by hiding among the bodies in a hospital morgue to avoid Red Guards. Her involvement in AIDS began when she learned that H.I.V. was silently spreading through Henan in the 1990s. A government-endorsed blood-selling campaign had led to the infection of thousands of farmers. She traveled to villages to provide medical care and free informational brochures to people who had no idea why they were dying.

Awards

Dr. Gao Yao Jie has received past recognition in China. She was given a “Ten People Who Touched China in 2003” award from the government’s television network. But she was prevented from traveling outside China to receive awards in 2001 and 2003. Dr. Gao was notified in October that she would be honored by the Vital Voices Global Partnership, a nonprofit women’s advocacy group. She is one of four Chinese women being recognized at a March 14 ceremony in Washington, which will also honor women from India, Guatemala and Sudan. Published: February 6, 2007 By JIM YARDLEY China Places AIDS Activist Under House Arrest www.nytimes.com

Vital Voices Global Partnership

http://www.vitalvoices.org/ http://www.nndb.com/org/085/000119725/ Hillary Clinton Dr. Gao was detained on Feb. 1 as she was leaving for Beijing to pick up a United States travel visa so she could attend a banquet to be held in her honor in March by Vital Voices Global Partnership, a nonprofit group whose honorary chairwomen are Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas.

JIM YARDLEY report

China Covers Up AIDS Doctor's Detention Published: February 16, 2007 BEIJING, Feb. 15 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/world/asia/16china.html?ex=1177041600&en=382607d46b7761cb&ei=5070 International groups like the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been welcomed.

Other stories

6. Zhu Jing Zhong testimony, at least 400 people are, like him, living with HIV/AIDS, More than 150 have died already, 50 youngsters orphaned (TV broadcast: 50 children with one father on International AIDS Day last December) - 'Sunshine Home orphanage' has been opened

7. Wang Lao Shi (Shendong province) sold his house, brought the proceeds from the sale and his teaching skills to the orphanage. "The Communist party is good. The central government is good... These local officials are so bad, greedy and corrupt," he says.

8. The reporter, Wu Jing, was arrested by Henan police and then went back secretly to complete a program, which raised a million yuan, about $200,000, for the Sunshine Home. The reporter is not allowed to give interviews, but one anchor, Yang Rui, says more and more Chinese journalists are finding the courage to challenge authorities

9. 'Sunshine Home orphanage' will have to close because it doesn't have a permit - reports AIDS activist Hu Jia, Village elder Lao Zhang talks privately- 'they had their eyes on that million yuan. That's why they won't let Zhu Jing Zhong run the orphanage'

10. In Henan province, the most powerful local 'snake' is provincial governor Li Chung Yu. Showing not a hint of shame or remorse for what his subordinates have done, he blames the victims.