Medicine : China Adopts Strict AIDS Law
A new law authorizes health officials to order AIDS tests for any Chinese deemed at risk of contracting the disease and to place all sufferers in quarantine, officials at the Public Health Ministry said today.
Sun Xinhua of the ministry’s Disease Prevention Department said that under the new law, “if local authorities want someone to be tested, he must be tested. He has no right to refuse.”
“If any Chinese is found to be an AIDS sufferer, he will be quarantined and will not be allowed to continue working or going to school,” Nan Junhua, another official, said.
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