**Young victim: Sun Weilin, 4, has HIV that she caught from her mother, who was infected when she had a caesarean section giving birth to her first child in a hospital in Henan.
Photo: AFP***
Posted on 11/30/2005 8:07:11 PM PST by Dr. Marten
**Young victim: Sun Weilin, 4, has HIV that she caught from her mother, who was infected when she had a caesarean section giving birth to her first child in a hospital in Henan.
Photo: AFP***
THE farming village of Shuangmiao, with 3000 people, is one of the worst hit by an HIV epidemic that spread in the heartland province of Henan a decade ago.
Already 180 people have died, and 400 are infected. New deaths occur frequently.
The virus spread from a grotesquely unhygienic commercial blood-collection business between 1992 and 1995 when impoverished villagers sold their blood almost daily, having their red corpuscles and other residues reinfused from common vats of the same blood type once plasma and other marketable components had been extracted. Perhaps 1 million people were infected.
Yet when China and the international community turn their attention today to the worldwide epidemic of HIV and AIDS, Shuangmiao and other villages like it will be barred to outsiders, and its residents blocked from external contact.
"There will be martial law on International AIDS Awareness Day," said villager Zhu Yuanyao, who is himself HIV positive. "No one will be allowed in and out. Someone from the town police will come down and stay in the village."
Although doctors are reporting progress in the Government's campaign to arrest deaths from AIDS, which began belatedly just over two years ago, the Communist Party is still keeping a blanket of secrecy over Henan's stricken villages such as Shuangmiao, where the total of HIV-infected people is still not reliably known.
The only exception is a showcase village called Wenlou, where visiting foreign experts and diplomats who insist on going to Henan are taken for carefully stage-managed meetings with grateful HIV-patients and solicitous doctors.
"It's all to protect one man," says Pierre Haski, correspondent of the Paris newspaper Liberation in Beijing and author of a new book on the Henan AIDS disaster, called Le Sang de la Chine (The Blood of China).
That man is Li Changchun, who as provincial Communist Party secretary was Henan's top political leader in 1992-98, when the blood-selling business was promoted by the provincial government and covered up when officials heard about its disastrous effects.
Now the eighth-ranking Communist leader in the top Politburo standing committee, 61-year-old Mr Li is superbly placed to continue the cover-up as party Propaganda Minister.
In Shuangmiao, the baleful effects of the cover-up are evident in the effort to ameliorate the suffering of the victims.
In August 2003, the newly installed Premier, Wen Jiabao, and a forceful deputy known as the "Iron Lady", Vice-Premier Wu Yi, promised free anti-retroviral drugs and testing for all HIV patients, as well as small monthly stipends for those needing support, including orphans.
The new policy came in the wake of China's embarrassment over a cover-up of the SARS-pneumonia epidemic that year, which led to pledges of transparency about epidemics and natural disasters. Two years later, the party is draining initiative and compassion from the delivery of services.
And the blame is being put on the victims, who are portrayed as greedy for selling their blood to allegedly illegal operations, even though government health clinics undertook blood collection and health officials and their families were prominent in numerous private-sector enterprises, with much of the blood going to two commercial offshoots of the People's Liberation Army.
Only one official has been punished in the whole fiasco. Ma Shiwen, a middle-ranking Henan health official, spent six months in jail in 2003 for allegedly leaking a secret report on the disaster to a Beijing NGO. All those widely regarded as culpable have gone on to receive promotions and perks.
The victims are livid. "If the local health bureau had now allowed these people to buy blood, and if they hadn't made the propaganda that selling blood was an honour and would benefit your health, the farmers would not have gone and sold their blood," villager Mr Zhu said in Shuangmiao.
His is a voice the party wants suppressed. To reach Shuangmiao last week, The Age had to drive in towards midnight, approaching the village by bumpy tracks through the barley fields, and leaving in the small hours of the morning. During the day and evening, the village has a checkpoint manned by paid vigilantes, ordered to turn back non-government activists and journalists.
The blood-selling business seemed a bonanza for poor villagers like Mr Zhu.
He sold 400cc units of his blood almost daily for a year from 1992, earning a net 45 yuan ($A7.50) each time, bringing an unprecedented flow of cash into the family.
No one knew about HIV or AIDS then, but after authorities started suppressing the blood business and villagers started weakening and dying a few years later, some found out when they went to seek medical help in Beijing and when a handful of Chinese doctors began exploring the epidemic amid official threats. Mr Zhu discovered that he and his wife, Zhang Winrong, were infected with HIV, along with their son. One of Mr Zhu's brothers has already died.
The extent of the Henan epidemic is unknown. The provincial Government did large-scale testing in 2004 and announced a total of just under 30,000 HIV cases, but there are experts who deride this.
Zhang Ke, one of the doctors who exposed the Henan epidemic, estimates 100,000 cases, but many NGOs think the figure could be 10 times as high.
The new policy came in the wake of China's embarrassment over a cover-up of the SARS-pneumonia epidemic that year, which led to pledges of transparency about epidemics and natural disasters. Two years later, the party is draining initiative and compassion from the delivery of services.
And the blame is being put on the victims, who are portrayed as greedy for selling their blood to allegedly illegal operations, even though government health clinics undertook blood collection and health officials and their families were prominent in numerous private-sector enterprises, with much of the blood going to two commercial offshoots of the People's Liberation Army.
Only one official has been punished in the whole fiasco. Ma Shiwen, a middle-ranking Henan health official, spent six months in jail in 2003 for allegedly leaking a secret report on the disaster to a Beijing NGO. All those widely regarded as culpable have gone on to receive promotions and perks.
The victims are livid. "If the local health bureau had now allowed these people to buy blood, and if they hadn't made the propaganda that selling blood was an honour and would benefit your health, the farmers would not have gone and sold their blood," villager Mr Zhu said in Shuangmiao.
His is a voice the party wants suppressed. To reach Shuangmiao last week, The Age had to drive in towards midnight, approaching the village by bumpy tracks through the barley fields, and leaving in the small hours of the morning. During the day and evening, the village has a checkpoint manned by paid vigilantes, ordered to turn back non-government activists and journalists.
The blood-selling business seemed a bonanza for poor villagers like Mr Zhu.
He sold 400cc units of his blood almost daily for a year from 1992, earning a net 45 yuan ($A7.50) each time, bringing an unprecedented flow of cash into the family.
No one knew about HIV or AIDS then, but after authorities started suppressing the blood business and villagers started weakening and dying a few years later, some found out when they went to seek medical help in Beijing and when a handful of Chinese doctors began exploring the epidemic amid official threats. Mr Zhu discovered that he and his wife, Zhang Winrong, were infected with HIV, along with their son. One of Mr Zhu's brothers has already died.
The extent of the Henan epidemic is unknown. The provincial Government did large-scale testing in 2004 and announced a total of just under 30,000 HIV cases, but there are experts who deride this.
Zhang Ke, one of the doctors who exposed the Henan epidemic, estimates 100,000 cases, but many NGOs think the figure could be 10 times as high.
Ping!
Sounds like something Bill Clinton might have planned down in Arkansas.
Very sad
You think that pic of a young kid if worth joking about? What an A$# you are. What is that was your nephew or niece? I hope you can sleep well tonight.
That should read what if
I have stopped sending people to Free Republic because it has become so mean spirited lately. I wish the mods would do something about it. Very tragic the way the posters in this forum seem to want to treat subjects like this. Bitterness and hatefull posts...seem to be plentiful lately. It brings a black eye to the right. I have heard this often lately from those who view this forum. Too bad and unfortunate.
Perhaps people may decide for themselves. N00b.
Perhaps Cicero was referring to the sale of tainted blood from Arkansas that Clinton oversaw while he was governor.
Have you read through the archive of Aids-tainted blood articles here on Free Republic?
Pinz
Anybody have a Bloodhounds ping list?
Pinz
You are very much mistaken. That was NOT a joke. You owe Cicero an apology, unless you're a jerk.
Green Cross Corporation
(株式会社ミドリ十字; Kabushiki Gaisha Midori Jūji) was one of the premire pharmaceutical companies in Japan. The company merged into Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
(吉富製薬株式会社) on April 1, 1998, and renamed to Welfide Corporation (ウェルファイド株式会社) on April 1, 2000. Finally Welfide Corp. and Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharmaceutical Inc.
(三菱東京製薬株式会社) were mereged to form Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation (三菱ウェルファーマ株式会社) on October 1, 2001.
Green Cross was founded in 1950 as Japan's first commercial blood bank and became a diversified international pharmaceutical company producing ethical drugs for delivery or administration by doctors and healthcare workers. It included war criminals such as Kitano Masaji who performed human experimentation in Unit 731 of the Japanese military during World War II.
Its products were extensively used in the treatments of a wide range of ailments. As well as supplying whole blood for transfusions, Green Cross was also active in developing blood derivative products such as coagulation factors, immunoglobulin and albumin. In the mid 1960's, it expanded into the non-plasma sector. Cardiovascular agents, coagulation/fibrinolytic agents, immunological agents, anti-inflammatory agents, albumin-based agents, blood plasma components and parenteral nutrition accounted for 71% of fiscal 1998 unconsolidated revenues; wholesale of diagnostic reagents, 14% and other, 15%. Unconsolidated revenues accounted for 59.5% of fiscal 1998 consolidated revenues. The company had eleven consolidated subsidiaries, three each in the United States and Japan, and one each in Germany, the United Kingdom, Barbados, China and Hong Kong. Overseas sales accounted for 41.9% of fiscal 1998 consolidated revenues.
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HIV-tainted blood scandal (Japan)
Japan's HIV-tainted blood scandal, known in Japanese as 薬害エイズ事件 (yakugai eizu jiken) refers between one and two thousand cases in the 1980s in which Japanese patients with haemophilia contracted HIV via tainted blood products. Controversy centers on the continued use of non-heat-treated blood products after the development of heat-treatments that prevent the spread of infection.
Early years
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a communicable disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV. AIDS is currently considered incurable. The first reported cases of AIDS occurred in Los Angeles is 1981. See full article at AIDS.
It was not until 1985 that the first cases of AIDS were officially reported in Japan. As early as 1983, however, Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare was notified by Baxter Travenol Laboratries (BTL) that it was manufacturing a new blood product, licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which was heat-treated to kill the HIV virus. BTL was interested in licensing this new product in Japan. Japan's own Green Cross Corporation, the main Japanese provider of blood products protested that this would constitute unfair competition, as it was "not prepared to make heat-treated agents itself" [Leflar]. The Ministry of Health responded by ordering screening of untreated blood products, clinical trials of heat-treatments, and a campaign to increase domestic blood donations. Green Cross meanwhile distributed letters of "safety assurance of unheated blood roducts" to patients, many of whom suffered from haemophilia [Miyamoto].
"AIDS Year One"
On January 17, 1987, Japan's AIDS Surveillance Committee reported that "for the first time" a Japanese woman had contracted AIDS. Described as a "habitual prostitute," the woman had reportedly had sexual intercourse with "a hundred men," including "non-Japanese," and had lived in Kobe with a "non-Japanese" sailor from whom the Committee concluded she had contracted HIV. On January 18, Shiokawa Yuichi, chair of the government comission in charge of AIDS policy, announced that the disease was now a threat to "ordinary people living ordinary lives." He proclaimed 1987 Japan's "AIDS Year One" [Treat].
Kobe exploded in panic. Thousands of people went in for testing and visited health centres, and "armies of reporters" tracked the woman down like a "criminal," publishing her photograph, real name, and address in newspapers. Much later it was admitted, after the woman's family filed a lawsuit, that she had never been a prostitute [Ikeda].
AIDS was seen as a foreign disease; some began to refer to it as a kurobune, literally a "black ship," a reference to the American invasion by Commodore Perry in 1853. "No Foreigners Allowed" signs began to appear at businesses throughout Japan; Japanese people were warned not to have sex with foreigners and to be wary of those who had. A government-produced pamphlet showed an image of the Statue of Liberty holding a book on AIDS and towering over a trembling Mount Fuji. Hospitals began advertising that they had no HIV-positive patients, and the Diet introduced a bill to ban HIV-positive foreigners from entering Japan. [Treat].
The tainted blood scandal exposed
In May and October of 1989, HIV-infected haemophiliacs in Osaka and Tokyo filed lawsuits against the Ministry of Health and Welfare and five Japanese drug companies. In 1994 two charges of attempted murder were filed against Dr. Abe Takeshi, who had headed the Health Ministry's AIDS research team in 1983; he was found not guilty in 2005. Abe resigned as vice-president of Teikyo University.
In January of 1996, Kan Naoto was appointed Health Minister. He assembled a team to investigate the scandal, and within a month nine files of documents related to the scandal were uncovered, despite the Ministry of Health's claims that no such documents existed. As Minster, Kan promptly admitted the Ministry's legal responsibility and formally apologised to the plaintiffs.
The reports uncovered by Kan's team revealed that, after the report about the possibility of contamination, untreated blood products were recalled by the Japanese importer. However, when the importer tried to present a report to the Ministry of Health, it was told that such a report was unnecessary. The Ministry claimed that there was a "lack of evidence pointing to links between infection with HIV and the use of unheated blood products." According to one official, "we could not make public a fact that could fan anxieties among patients" [J.E.N].
According to the files, the Ministry of Health had recommended, in 1983, that the import of untreated blood and blood products be banned, and that emergency imports of heat-treated products be allowed. A week later, however, this recommendation was withdrawn because it would "deal a blow" to Japan's marketers of untreated blood products [Updike].
In 1983 Japan imported 3.14 million litres of blood plasma from the US to produce its own blood products, as well as 46 million units of prepared blood products. These imported blood products were said to pose no risk of HIV infection, and were used in Japan until 1986. Heat-treated products had been on sale since 1985, but there was neither a recall of remaining products nor a warning about the risks of using untreated products. As a result, untreated blood preparations stored at hospitals and in patients' home refrigerators were used up; there have been cases reported in which individuals were diagnosed with haemophilia for the first time between 1985 and 1986, began treatment, and were subsequently infected with HIV, even though it was known that HIV could be transmitted in untreated blood preparations, and treated products had become available and were in use at that time.
As early as 1984, several Japanese haemophiliacs were discovered to have been infected with HIV through the use of untreated blood preparations; this fact was concealed from the public. The patients themselves continued to receive "intentional propaganda" which downplayed the risks of contracting HIV from blood products, assured their safety, and promoted their use. Of some 4500 haemophiliacs in Japan, an estimated 2000 contracted HIV in the 1980s from untreated blood preparations [J.E.N].
Charges
Matsushita Renzo, former head of the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau, and two of his colleagues, were found guilty of professional negligence resulting in death. Matsushita was sentenced to two years in jail. A murder charge was also brought against him. Matsushita, who after retirement became president of Green Cross, is one of at least nine former Ministry of Health bureaucrats who have retired to executive positions in Japan's blood industry since the 1980s
Look in the mirror.
A group of people with HIV urged the government Wednesday to protect the rights of patients diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
The group, members of which contracted the AIDS virus in the 1980s from tainted blood products,, said it is concerned that public fears over SARS, which is spreading worldwide but has yet to be confirmed in Japan, will spark discrimination against sufferers.
The hemophiliacs, the next of kin of patients who have died and their supporters made a written request to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on the matter.
They said they have suffered not only HIV/AIDS from the contaminated blood products but also social prejudice and discrimination.
They urged the ministry to ensure that local governments and medical institutions respect the rights of SARS patients and be prepared to accept them or offer advice, according to the request.
They also called for a careful examination of the seriousness and infectious power of the disease now that the ministry has newly designated SARS as an infectious disease for the first time under a law authorizing it to forcibly hospitalize patients.
The victims contracted HIV mainly from the now-defunct Green Cross Corp. blood products and, in a series of cases since 1989, sued the government over its failure to prevent the disaster.
Japan visit postponed
SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) The mayor of Zhuhai in China's Guangdong Province has postponed his visit to Japan due to the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the region, officials said Wednesday.
Mayor Wang Shunsheng and his entourage had been slated to arrive in Japan on Monday to participate in a cultural exchange with the city of Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. They informed Atami on Friday they wanted to postpone the trip, the officials said.
Wang and his group were to visit Atami on Thursday after making a tour of businesses in Tokyo.
The group had planned sightseeing trips, including to Kyoto, before returning home Monday.
Last week, the World Health Organization issued a rare advisory urging travelers to avoid Guangdong and Hong Kong due to the SARS epidemic.
The Japan Times: April 10, 2003
>>>>The victims contracted HIV mainly from the now-defunct Green Cross Corp.
See post 55 for Green Cross Corp's latest business name.
Four drug manufacturers whose blood products were said to have infected thousands of hemophiliacs with the virus that causes AIDS in the early 1980's will pay about $670 million in a settlement approved by a Federal judge.
Six thousand hemophiliacs were each to receive $100,000. In an earlier settlement in Japan, AIDS-infected hemophiliacs were paid $450,000 each. The office of Federal District Judge John Grady confirmed today that he had granted oral formal approval to the settlement on Tuesday. The settlement had won preliminary court approval in April 1996.
The settlement was ''one of the most horrible scenarios that can be imagined,'' said Ron Niederman, a spokesman for the Committee of 10 Thousand, which represents the hemophiliacs. ''In light of the damage they caused, the companies are getting off cheap.''
The companies, which admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to settle, were Bayer A.G. of Germany, the Green Cross Corporation of Japan, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc., a French and American company and Baxter International Inc. of Deerfield, Ill.
Guy Esnouf, a Rhone-Poulenc spokesman, said that combined the companies would pay a total of up to about $670 million, of which about $600 million would go to individual hemophiliacs.
To resolve insurance complications and insure that the hemophiliacs will be able to keep their money, the companies will pay $12 million to the Federal Government and $18 million to 25 state governments and private insurers, he said. In addition, the companies face up to $40 million in legal fees, Mr. Esnouf said.
Bayer will shoulder 45 percent of the total cost, Baxter and Rhone-Poulenc 20 percent each and Green Cross 15 percent.
The settlement does not entirely end the decade-old controversy stemming from the infection of 6,000 to 8,000 United States hemophiliacs by contaminated Factor VIII and Factor IX blood clotting agents. About 550 hemophiliacs opted out of the class-action settlement and might pursue litigation against the companies on their own, Mr. Niederman said. He was among those opting out and planned to press his case ''to the bitter end.''
Also, the companies were still in discussions with 25 other states and the Prudential Insurance Company of America over settling remaining insurance matters, Mr. Esnouf said.
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The New York Times
February 25, 1997
Japan Blood Supplier, Facing H.I.V. Penalty, to Be Acquired
By ANDREW POLLACK
The Green Cross Corporation, a troubled Japanese company at the center of a big H.I.V.-tainted blood scandal, will be acquired by another pharmaceutical company, and its name will cease to exist, the companies said today.
The buyer, Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., will exchange six-tenths of a share of its stock for each share of Green Cross in a deal worth 110 billion yen, or about $900 million.
While the two companies said the combination was aimed at giving them the size needed to compete more effectively, some analysts termed it a rescue of Green Cross that might have been engineered by the Japanese Government. Green Cross, based in Osaka, denied Government involvement.
The largest manufacturer of blood products in this country, Green Cross is facing estimated payments of 24 billion yen, or $195 million, as its share of a settlement with hemophiliacs who had become infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, from contaminated blood-clotting products. The companies said today that payments to the hemophiliacs would continue to be made.
About 1,800 hemophiliacs in Japan were infected with H.I.V. and more than 400 have died. In their lawsuits, the hemophiliacs said that the Health and Welfare Ministry had permitted Green Cross and four other drug companies to continue to sell unsterilized blood-clotting products well after heat-treating technology that kills viruses had become available.
Hospitals have been boycotting Green Cross products. And three former company presidents await trial on criminal charges of professional negligence resulting in death.
Yoshitomi, also based in Osaka, is a midsize drug company specializing in tranquilizers. It had sales last year of 101.6 billion yen, or $828 million. Roughly one-fifth of Yoshitomi is owned by Takeda Chemical Industries, a leading Japan drug concern.
Green Cross was started as a private blood bank in 1950. One of its founders, Ryoichi Naito, had been an officer in the notorious Unit 731 of the Imperial Army, which conducted germ-warfare experiments on civilians and prisoners in China during World War II.
Green Cross's American subsidiary, the Alpha Therapeutic Corporation, is one of four companies that recently agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 600 H.I.V.-infected hemophiliacs in the United States.
Green Cross has long employed many retiring health ministry officials. Hemophiliacs contended that the ministry delayed approval of heat-treated blood products to allow Green Cross time to catch up to foreign rivals.
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See my post above.
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Stop being rude and obnoxious.
Even if accurate in some way this would hardly be the worst of China's problems.
News media are such lemmings and dim in general -- lemming like that need propaganda spoon fed them.
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