CHINA: "Where Blood Can Determine Everything"

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CDC 09-28-2011

CHINA: "Where Blood Can Determine Everything"
Toronto Star (09.28.11)

Routine hepatitis B virus testing of potential employees and students in
China remains widespread more than a year after the nation banned mandatory
testing by businesses, governments, and schools, advocates say. Despite
legal protections for people with HBV, numerous websites have sprung up
offering “gunmen” for hire - people who are not infected who, for
$125-$300, will take the blood test for HBV-infected applicants.

“Their business is really good right now,” said Yang Zhanqing,
executive director of the Beijing Yirenping Center, an advocacy and legal
services group that assists with discrimination claims.

An estimated one-third of people with chronic HBV worldwide live in China,
about 10 percent of whose population is HBV-infected. Widespread
HBV-related discrimination there is partly based on the mistaken belief
that the virus is easily spread.

After disclosing her infection to a potential employer in 2005, Zhou
Juejiang said she was told “they would discuss it with superiors and
never responded.” “My only choice seemed to be to return to my village
and do farming, which was the only job that didn’t require a medical
checkup,” said Zhou, who believes hiring a stand-in for the test would be
immoral.

Some of the nation’s top kindergartens keep out toddlers with HBV, Yang
said. Even today, most companies still screen for HBV and reject those who
test positive, advocates say.

“It affects everything,” said Yang. “If they want to go to a hospital
for something, they can’t talk about it. If they want to get married,
they can’t talk about it. They can’t tell their friends, or anyone
else.”

“It used to be that every lawsuit we helped with was groundbreaking,”
Yang said. “Now there are so many it’s becoming normal.”

liver411

乙肝歧视仍在中国盛行
2011-09-29 17:01:35   来源：环球时报   

　　加拿大《多伦多星报》9月28 日文章，原题：在中国，血液检查决定着一切 对于至少10%的中国人来说，他们的未来取决于血液检查。中国乙肝病毒携带者人数约占全球1/3。这些人总是被雇主、学校拒绝或被朋友、伙...

　　加拿大《多伦多星报》9月28 日文章，原题：在中国，血液检查决定着一切 对于至少10%的中国人来说，他们的未来取决于血液检查。中国乙肝病毒携带者人数约占全球1/3。这些人总是被雇主、学校拒绝或被朋友、伙伴抛弃。尽管社 会歧视还没消除，但该国乙肝患者已找到同偏见作斗争的新办法，一些是合法的，另一些则具有欺骗性。
　　近年来，一下子冒出来很多网站，中国 的乙肝携带者可从网站上雇“枪手”来替其检验血液。如今在中国，花钱雇枪手几乎能进行任何一项检查，查血也不例外。花上125美元到300美元，没受到感 染的枪手就会出现在招聘前的体检中。“他们的生意现在真的很火”，向被歧视群体提供法律援助的杨詹清（音）说。

　　考虑到乙肝携带者一旦披露实际情况就可能失去工作和教育机会，这项隐秘服务大受欢迎也就不足为奇了。根深蒂固的歧视源于一种错误观念：认为这种病毒很容易传播。
　 　24岁的周觉绛（音）就失去了很多机会。“我申请一个职位，主动告诉公司我是乙肝携带者”，她回忆说，“他们说要先与领导商量，此后就再没回音。我被很 多老板拒绝过，唯一的选择看来就是回家务农，这是唯一一种无需医检就能干的工作。”其他乙肝病毒携带者也讲述了类似经历，血液检查终结了他们的求职机会甚 至婚姻。不过，周认为购买一份假的血液检查结果是不道德的。她寄希望于社会（观念）发生转变。

　　尽管政府禁止公司、政府机关和学校要求乙肝检查已一年有余，但这项检查仍很普遍。甚至在中国的幼儿园里都很常见，携带乙肝病毒的孩子被一流学校拒之门外。
　　“它影响着一切事”，杨詹清说，“如果去医院，他们不能说。如果想结婚，他们不能说。不能告诉他们的朋友或其他任何人。”▲（作者凯瑟琳·麦克劳林，陈一译）

liver411

ZF执行和解释法律的无能才让这样，歧视受害，枪手横行......人吃人...

planetearth

唉，能移民就移民吧，
尤其是我们这种在国内都是二等公民的（其实中国没有公民。。。）
还不如在外面。