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Date: March 25, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 12:30 to 14:00 (Light lunch at 12:30, Seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Abstract:
More than 7.4 million people in Asia
live with HIV/AIDS. What are the responses of civil society towards
the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mainland China? How can Asian countries
tackle the epidemic? In the seminar, Dr Wan will introduce to us
the involvement of civil society, the history, the role and different
kinds of groups in the AIDS campaign, especially most recently from
the general public, the affected communities and those who are concerned
about orphans. A discussion of problems faced by civil society will
be shared, such as funding and its management, programmes, assessment,
government relations, legal restrictions and many more. He will
also outline some of his work of the Beijing AIZHI Action Project
in the past 10 years in the seminar.
Bio-sketch:
Dr Wan Yan Hai is currently Head
of the Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education. He founded
the Beijing AIZHI Action Project, which is now registered as a private
health institute in Beijing, 10 years ago. Dr Wan launched China's
first HIV/AIDS counseling hotline in 1992; and his subsequent role
in publicizing the blood donation scandal in Henan province brought
him widespread international acclaim. He has been working on HIV/AIDS
education, gay and lesbian rights campaign, blood safety, patients'
rights, health policy and human rights advocacy in the past years.
He was trained in public health at the Shanghai Medical University
and was honoured the 1st Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human
Rights by Canadian AIDS Legal Network & Human Rights Watch (2002),
Defenders Award by International League of Human Rights (2002) and
2003 Yale World Fellow Award.
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