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Hepatitis B in China

B is for bigotry

Nov 16th 2006 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition

One-tenth of China's population risks discrimination

IN CHINA, as elsewhere, people with HIV/AIDS often suffer discrimination. But a far bigger group of virus carriers in China encounters similar bigotry. For 130m Chinese carrying the hepatitis B virus, which can cause fatal liver diseases, it can be hard to get a job—or even a decent education, as a group of schoolchildren in the far west recently found out.

Carriers of hepatitis B often show no symptoms. In China, many first learn they are infected when they apply for work or a place at university and undergo medical examinations. In September elite state-run boarding schools in Urumqi, about 2,400km (1,500 miles) west of Beijing, gave new entrants a blood test and barred entry to 19 children found with the virus. Hepatitis B, like HIV, cannot be transmitted through food or casual contact. But victims of discrimination are often reluctant to draw attention to their plight. However, these parents were in anguish at the loss of a golden educational opportunity. A small local NGO, the Snow Lotus HIV/AIDS Education Institute, took up the children's cause and published details on the internet. State-run newspapers picked up the story.

The authorities in Urumqi, however, have dug in their heels. Chang Kun, who founded the NGO, fled to Beijing after police raided his office and seized his computer and health-education materials in October. He saw this as retaliation for his campaigns on behalf of the children as well as 156 hepatitis B-carrying university students in Urumqi, expelled from their colleges last year.

Seven of the children's families tried to sue the local education bureau, but came under pressure. Activists say some of the parents were told by police to drop the case. A lawyer representing the parents, Zhang Yuanxin, says the parents agreed to do so this week. State-controlled newspapers had already gone quiet about the issue.

Lu Jun, who runs a website in the central city of Zhengzhou to provide information for fellow hepatitis B carriers, says that there has been less international pressure on China to act than on HIV/AIDS. This year China issued a statute banning discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS, but it has yet to do the same for hepatitis B, which kills many more people in China than does AIDS.

In 2003 a hepatitis B-carrying student stabbed and killed an official because he was denied a civil-service job. He was executed. Since then, the central government has begun to act. Early last year it declared that carriers would no longer be barred from government posts. This month it banned advertisements featuring treatments for certain conditions, including infection with hepatitis B. Such advertisements often convey misinformation about how the virus is spread. Their message, not the government's, seems to rule in places like Urumqi.

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乙肝在中国

乙类偏见

十分之一的中国人遭受歧视

与其它地方相似，在中国艾滋病携带者会遭受歧视。然而同样遭受歧视的还有一个更加庞大的携带者群体，1.3亿的中国人携带有能导致严重肝脏疾病的乙肝病毒。由于歧视，携带者很难找到工作，甚至适龄儿童在接受正当教育的过程中也是如此。最近，发生在遥远的西部地区一个关于学生的事件便是一例。

从外表往往很难分辨出乙肝携带者与普通人有何不同。在中国，人们往往是在入学或入职体检中方才得知自己感染了乙肝病毒。乌鲁木齐地处西部，距北京2400公里。今年九月，19个孩子在入学体检中被查出携带乙肝病毒而被拒之于学校门外。我们知道乙肝病毒与艾滋病病毒一样不会通过食物或日常接触传染，乙肝歧视的受害者往往不愿意曝光，就这样，由于失去了良好的受教育机会，那些孩子的父母们承受着巨大的痛苦。一个小型的当地民间组织——新疆雪莲花艾滋病教研项目组织，将这件事的来龙去脉发布到了互联网上。国有新闻报纸引用了这则消息。

然而，新疆政府釜底抽薪。常坤是雪莲花组织的创立者，10月，他的办公室被搜查，电脑及健康教育资料被没收，此后他逃到了北京。他认为政府的这种举动是报复，因为在乌鲁木齐他的活动代表的是那些孩子还有去年156名由于携带乙肝病毒而被大学开除的学生。

7个孩子家长顶着压力，试图控告当地教育局。消息灵通人士透漏，警察曾胁迫家长放弃诉讼。一位家长的代表律师张远辛（译音）说，这周家长已经同意放弃诉讼。而国内媒体已对此事闭口不谈。

陆军，在郑州运营着一家为乙肝病毒携带者提供信息的网站，他表示，与爱滋病相比，中国来自于国际的舆论的压力太小了。每年在中国因为乙肝而死的人要远多于艾滋病，可是今年中国只颁布了一项禁止歧视艾滋病携带者的法令，而对乙肝却无人过问。

2003年，一名乙肝病毒携带者在公务员考试中因歧视被拒，怒而刺杀了一名考官。他被执行了死刑。从那时起，政府已有所动作，去年初开始，携带着已被允许录取到公务岗位。本月，政府颁布了禁止某些广告的规定，其中包括乙肝药品的广告，这些广告常常夸大乙肝的传染性，从而误导大众。传播这种误导信息虽不是政府所为，但其不良影响已波及甚广，乌鲁木齐就是其中一例。