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BEIJING - Chinese condition authorities and the U.N. AIDS means pledged to contend bigotry against people with the sickness in China with the unveiling Sunday of a big red ribbon, the representation of AIDS awareness, at the Olympic Bird's Nest arena in Beijing.
Organizers said the dread of being stigmatized at labour or in their communities is discouraging numerous people at danger of HIV infection from being tested. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
After years of denying that AIDS was a difficulty, Chinese leaders be obsessed or in ownership of shifted gears in late years, confronting the affliction more brazenly and hopeful anonymous testing, at freedom treatment representing the needy and a bar on partiality against people with the virus.
The subject, nevertheless, quiet remains extremely delicate and authorities regularly break down on activists and patients seeking more back and rights.
"About half of all Chinese would not desire to portion a food with a individual with HIV/AIDS, and a fourth would not crave to quiver hands," said Dr. Bernhard Schwartlander, country coordinator of UNAIDS in China. "People desire not approach advance to be tested. They won't advantage from treatment. They won't talk to their partners and colleagues circular HIV/AIDS � putting themselves and others potentially at peril championing HIV."
Schwartlander was speaking at the Bird's Nest ground, a chief Olympic venue, during the unveiling of a 66-foot close 50-foot (20-meter beside 15-meter) criterion on which the red AIDS awareness ribbon was printed.
"Stigma and bias are larger obstacles in an effective answer to AIDS. We order to employ all sectors of fellowship in China to battle these issues and toil together to discontinue the ailment," said Minister of Health Chen Zhu. He did not particularize any steps they would grip.
Official estimates place the numeral of people living with HIV in China at about 700,000, with approximately 85,000 people with filled-blown AIDS, UNAIDS said in a assertion. But the integer of officially reported HIV cases remains lone 264,302 � afar drop than the estimated sum, in bit because of unwillingness to look testing.