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Chinese NBA superstar Yao Ming is helping a UN campaign to fight stigma against those who are HIV-positive in China.
The campaign will use more than 30,000 posters of Ming and his fans, including some HIV-positive ones, as well as videos in 12 Chinese cities.
HIV-positive persons in China face extraordinary levels of reproach, according to the UN’s “China Stigma Index.” One-fourth of medical staff and more than one-third of government and educational officials looked down on those they learned were HIV-positive, the report said.
“These results really underscore the importance of ensuring health care professionals receive appropriate training to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase their ability to provide appropriate services to people living with HIV,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe.
The research, the first of its kind in China, is based on a survey of 2,000 HIV-positive persons. By the end of the year, the number of HIV-positive persons is expected to total 740,000, with 48,000 new infections in the previous 12 months.
The survey also found that, among HIV-positive persons of working age, about one-third had dropped out of the labor market because of the disease, and 55 percent had in some way curtailed their social activities because of their HIV status.
“Building understanding and care from society as a whole for people living with HIV, together with eliminating discrimination, are key elements of the AIDS response,” said Huang Jiefu, China’s vice minister of health.
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