The Land of the Three Nos

By Nana Dadzie Ghansah

In the early 1990s, HIV spread like wildfire in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Shaanxi, and Shanxi. Between 200,000 and 300,000 were infected because of the trade in blood and blood products by thousands of public and commercial blood and plasma collection centers.

These centers, whose actions were poorly policed and controlled, led to the infection of…