China Tells Its Public of Enormity of AIDS Toll

Published December 2, 2003. Miranda Mimi Kuo for The New York Times

Told that Henan Province is an epicenter of AIDS, with huge numbers of cases and deaths, Zhao Pingyuan shook his head. "There is nothing like that," he said. "It would have been on television if people had died of AIDS." Zhao is a trash recyclable collector living in Beijing whose home province is Henan.

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