Take action: March 8, International Women’s Day, visiting to AIDS activist Li Xige’s home!
Dear friends and colleagues:
Please taking action, giving up shit preaching, shit moral article, when the time we repeats thousands upon thousands times about Germany’s protestant Martin Niemoller’s poem《First they came for the Communists》, that not only about how a shocking soul we have, but also taking action from the heart of the heart and taking place of fallen for born without fear of life!
Let us show the immeasurable love for parents and nation and human race, to promote the cause of China’s AIDS prevention and treatment, to fight against all evils brought about by AIDS, in social movements with magnanimous mind!
March 8, International Women’s Day, was set up for celebrating the women who have made an important contribution and tremendous achievements in the economic, political and social fields. In any countries, this day can’t be separated with women’s rights movements. Many countries women and their supporters would like to take demonstrations, strikes and assemblies to express their voices for women’s rights. But in our the great of the Chinese Nation in China, only just are beer and skittles, lost ways due to drunk brain.
March 8, let us fully to greet for all women who are struggling for basic human rights, to visit activists who has been being under house arrest
Li Xige, she is only an ordinary woman who to protect his rights based on AIDS, but now she is being under house arrest, she was very lonely in her one home, no freedom, two police men are standing up beside the door of his house every day. Please to visit her, this is a very easy thing!
Li Xige, who was two children’s mother once, and now just is a child’s mother with her younger daughter who living with HIV, as does she. The older daughter was died by AIDS.
Li Xige, she never yields to speech and talk with high officers if she have any chances, she put all she knew into actions what she had done.
Go to visit her,
With flowers, together or single,
Visit the small town that have more than 4,000 years has history of civilization,
To see if something has been leaving behind,
The life of Xia Shang Zhou Dynasties,
Or named Ningyi in Spring and Autumn Period, Xingling in Warring States Period
And called city by the king of the Qin Dynasty, county by Ha Wu king of the Han Dynasty,
One smelling the flowers of pears are in bud
Been a very touching feeling
One tasting the wine of Zhang gong
Been a worthwhile trip!
Chang Kun to greet!
I am very sorry, now I am in the USA, I can’t visit to Li Xige’s home, but we will organize an action before March 8 to express our emotion!
Chang Kun
www.changkun.org
Feb 15,2009
行动起来，3月8日到李喜阁家去做客
朋友们，同仁们，行动起来，狗屁的说教 ，狗屁的道德文章，当一千遍一万遍的重复德国新教教士马丁．尼莫拉的忏悔诗的时候，那不仅仅是心灵的震撼，是需要发自内心肺腑的行动，是昂起铿锵头颅不畏生命的前仆后继！
谁能够认可当一个人总是在考虑别人是否在谈论他的问题的人能够担当起反歧视挽救生命的大旗，以坦荡沉稳的胸怀用社会运动的方式推动中国艾滋病防治事业！
3月8日，妇女同胞的节日，为庆祝妇女在经济、政治和社会等领域做出的重要贡献和取得的巨大成就而设立的节日。在任何一个国家这一天都是和妇女的权利运动分不开的，多少国家的妇女及其妇女权利支持者在这一天游行、罢工、集会、表达各种妇女权利的呼声，而在我们伟大的中华民族的中国，是吃喝玩乐，是靡靡不能罢休，是沉醉不知去路！
3月8日，让我们充分向所有为基本人权而抗争的妇女同胞们致敬，去看望那些为此失去自由的活动者们！
李喜阁，她仅仅是一个基于艾滋病问题权利抗争的普通妇女，她很孤独，她在自己的家里没有自由，去看望她吧，这是一个很容易的事情！
李喜阁，她曾经两个孩子的母亲，现在只有一个孩子了，还是HIV携带者，她自己也是！
李喜阁，她不屈服的上访演说呼吁，她是知行合一者！
去看望她吧，
带一把鲜花，结伴或者独身，
探访这个有4000多年文明历史的小城，
看看是否还遗留下，
夏商周的气息，
或者春秋的宁邑，战国的信陵，
这个秦皇称城，汉武称县的物华天不之地，
嗅一嗅”金顶谢花酥梨”的含苞欲放，
荡气回肠；
品一品”东西南部中，好酒在张弓”的浓郁精致，
不虚此行！
酸难致敬！
地址：河南省宁陵县县城
电话：13439219931， 13569319760， 03707810912
以上电话如果都不能联通的时候，请联系下面：
妙觉法师：13240153364
北京益仁平中心郑州办公室0371 67956079
北京爱知行研究所010 88142132
常鹏13865951459
常坤13810726838（仅短信） 美国电话+1（718）5986016
（我有点惭愧，虽然这是我的想法，但是我不能去李喜阁家做客，但我在3月8日会在美国组织示威活动，有可能3月6日，因为8日这边是周末！）
常坤
为艾滋病防治努力一生
www.changkun.org
2009年2月1
Chinese HIV victim detained
after asking government for help
Thu Jul 20, 1:26 PM ET
BEIJING (AFP) – A Chinese woman who contracted AIDS from a hospital blood transfusion was detained on suspicion of a serious crime after she asked the health ministry for more compensation, an activist said.
Postal worker Li Xige was detained by police in her home county of Ningling in the central province of Henan, said Wan Yanhai, director of Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education, a non-governmental group.
Li, who was infected with HIV while giving birth to her first child in 1995, had appeared at the health ministry in Beijing on Tuesday along with eight other HIV sufferers, including a child, Wan said in a statement.
They had intended peacefully to petition the ministry for better compensation but apparently they were taken in by authorities and driven back to Henan on Wednesday, according to Wan.
On Thursday Li’s family was informed that she had been officially detained on suspicion of “assembling crowds to attack state organs,” Wan said. Two other participants in the failed attempt to petition the government were also detained, while the rest were under police supervision, he said.
Ningling county police declined to comment on the report when contacted by AFP, saying they had not heard about the case.
For the crime of “assembling crowds to attack state organs,” ringleaders can be sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison, according to the penal code.
Li did not know she was infected with HIV when having her first baby 11 years ago. The child, a girl, died in 2004. A second child has also been infected.
She said she later found several women who got AIDS from transfusions at the same hospital in Henan.
An estimated 650,000 people in China had the HIV virus at the end of 2005, according to UNAIDS, the United Nations agency spearheading the fight against the disease.
China blood test lapses fuel “hidden AIDS epidemic”
By Ben Blanchard Feb 21, 2006, 23:20
BEIJING (Reuters) – Blood for transfusions in China is still not routinely tested for HIV/AIDS despite a legal requirement to do so, triggering a “hidden epidemic,” an AIDS activist said on Tuesday.
The health ministry should offer free HIV tests to all people who have received blood transfusions since 1987 — about the time that AIDS first appeared in the country — together with their relatives, said Wan Yanhai, head of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education.
“There’s been no official statement about blood transfusions or the blood products-related AIDS epidemic,” Wan told reporters after a news briefing in Beijing, where he unveiled a letter to the health ministry calling for action.
Last year, the government said it would severely punish those responsible for serious diseases transmitted by transfusions. The move followed several cases in which people were infected after receiving blood sold by HIV carriers.
Political sensitivity and social stigma still surround AIDS in China, and the government’s slowness to acknowledge the epidemic contributed to its spread, especially in the central province of Henan, where in the 1990s millions sold blood to unsanitary clinics.
Despite the scandal surrounding the infection of often poor villagers who sold their blood to supplement meager incomes, donated blood is still not screened carefully enough, Wan said.
“In many places, the blood is not tested,” he said, adding that many people were unaware they had even been exposed to the virus and the government was unwilling to investigate, lest they fuel public anger. “It’s a hidden epidemic.”
The health ministry was not immediately available for comment.
There were about 25,000 deaths from AIDS across China in 2005. Last month, Beijing lowered by around 30 percent the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS to 650,000, yet warned against complacency, saying that the figure was still rising with many people unaware of the danger.
Of those, around 11 percent are thought to have been infected from blood transfusions, compared to around 40 percent each for cases transmitted sexually and by intravenous drug use.
NO PROGRESS IN COMPLAINTS
Law suits and victims’ complaints to hospitals and government departments have so far made little progress, according to several AIDS sufferers and their relatives who attended the conference.
One, who identified himself only by the surname Xiong, said his son had been infected receiving a blood transfusion during a routine dental operation in Beijing in 2002. He only found out a year later when his son fell ill and was diagnosed as being HIV-positive.
“They said it was an individual case and weren’t interested,” he said of his complaint to the hospital.
Xiong spends more than 1,000 yuan ($124) a month of his own money on drugs for his son, and does not dare tell the school of his son’s status, fearing he’ll be thrown out.
Li Xige, from Henan province, said she only found out she was infected when her eldest daughter died two years ago.
“Not a single lawyer would take my case,” Li told reporters, fighting back tears.
Treatment in different parts of China varies wildly, patients say, and tests that are supposed to be free often come with hidden charges.
“Shanghai seems to deal with it a lot better,” said one woman from northeastern China, who did not want to be named. “In other places the sick are simply being marched off to face death.”
Activists fear an explosion in the numbers of people infected by bad blood transfusions and want the government to face up to the problem.
“The government has not investigated the situation,” Wan said. “They don’t want to take the responsibility.
China facing timebomb: AIDS from blood transfer
(AFP) Updated: 2005-11-30 09:25
China, already dealing with a blood selling scandal that left thousands of farmers infected with HIV/ AIDS, is facing another crisis — this time from people who The victims include many women who received transfusions during cesarean sections.
Not knowing they had the disease until years later, they infected their children through mother-to-infant transmission and also their husbands.
Infections happened not only in the countryside but in government-run hospitals in cities and went on as late as 1998, patients said.
Victims are diverse, including police officers who received transfusions following traffic accidents. They are now increasingly vocal in demanding help.
“We request the government conduct an investigation so that people who got infected from transfusions will know they have the disease and not infect others,” said Shen Jieyong, a hair stylist.
Shen’s wife unknowingly infected him after she contracted the disease from a blood transfusion while giving birth to their daughter in 1998. His wife died in 2000 and his daughter, now eight, has the disease.
“The hospital my wife gave birth in was a big national-level hospital in (central) Hubei province. We never thought there would be a problem,” Shen said.
The government admitted the scandal involving poor farmers getting AIDS from selling blood in government-approved schemes, and has provided them with free medicine.
But it has said little about those who contracted AIDS from the nation’s unsafe blood supply.
It did not ban blood sales until 1995 or enforce regulations requiring screening for HIV at the nation’s blood-banks until recent years.
Chinese media, while reporting rare successful lawsuits won by victims against hospitals, have not widely reported the problem.
Tears streamed from victims’ eyes as they told this week how they paid for a transfusion thinking it would save them, but instead bought a death sentence.
Li Xige, a postal worker, was infected with HIV when she received a cesarean section in 1995 while giving birth to her first child, but found out too late. The child was infected and so was a second child she gave birth to later.
Her older daughter died last year at age nine, a day after being diagnosed.
“My elder daughter was always sickly,” Li said, tears welling in her eyes as her younger daughter, aged four, played nearby.
“She was much thinner than most children and suffered from regular diarrhea. We took her to the hospital many times but the doctors would only lecture me about not feeding her better.
“Until my daughter was diagnosed, we didn’t know all three of us had AIDS.”
Li said she later found several women who got AIDS from transfusions at the same hospital in central Henan province.
China estimates it has 840,000 HIV carriers, a number that is widely believed to be outdated. United Nations officials say it could have 10 million carriers by 2010.
According to official data, 25 percent of Chinese carriers were infected through transfusions and the majority through intravenous drug use and unsafe sex.
Victims and activists, however, believe the figure on transfusions could be much higher as unsafe blood was widely used up until the late 1990s.
“The hospitals bought the blood from blood sellers and these blood sellers were very mobile,” said Wan Yanhai, director of the non-governmental group, Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education.
“They travelled from city to city selling blood as a profession. Many doctors preferred to use blood obtained this way to earn a kickback.”
In addition to conducting an investigation, victims said the government should allow courts to accept more of their lawsuits and let the media expose the problem and raise public awareness.
“If they don’t act fast, we will die and the disease will spread further, causing greater disaster,” said Shen.
The health ministry has said previously it does not believe there are many blood transfusion AIDS cases but gave no further explanation.