Activists face uphill battle against AIDS
An employee with the local center for disease control tells an HIV-infected patient (left) how to take her medicine on Nov 25 in Yuxi's Hongta district, Yunnan province. Hongta's anti-AIDS workers have spent eight years trying to reach out to sex workers in an effort to educate them in the benefits of safe sex. Photos by Zhang Tao / China Daily |
Campaigners say it is increasingly difficult to trace fearful prostitutes driven underground. Duan Yan and Shan Juan in Yunnan report.
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