Locked Doors:
The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Figure 1: Map of the People’s Republic of China


1. SUMMARY
   
   
2. RESEARCH METHODS
   
   
3. BACKGROUND
• Brief history of HIV/AIDS in the People’s Republic of China
• China’s HIV/AIDS policy in the past five years
• Poverty and China’s health care system
• International law and the right to the highest attainable standard of health
• Social stigma
  
  
No one dared to help them


4. HUMAN RIGHTS AND HIV/AIDS IN CHINA
1. Violations of freedom of expression, information, association, and assembly
2. Discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS
3. Detention of injection drug users: the marginalization of persons at high risk
4. Mandatory testing and violations of confidentiality
5. Hospital negligence and HIV transmission
6. Other problems in health care
7. The Henan blood scandal and unsafe blood collection in China
   
   
I’ll just go away and wait to die


5. HONG KONG: ONE COUNTRY, TWO EPIDEMICS?
   
   
6. POSITIVE PRACTICES IN MAINLAND CHINA
   
   
Mostly, we just get together and talk


7. RECOMMENDATIONS
• To the Chinese Government:
• To the Ministry of Health:
• To the National People’s Congress:
• To the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region:
• To the Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission
• To the United Nations, bilateral and multilateral donors, and international NGOs providing assistance or carrying out programs on HIV/AIDS in China
  
  
8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
   
   
9. APPENDIX

August 2003       Vol. 15, No. 7(C)