The Epic Of The Central Plains

In the late 1980s and early 1990s in an attempt to stop the spread of AIDS the Chinese government sought a purer blood supply from its rural population Burdened by agricultural taxes and rising costs of education and health care many peasants sold blood to state and private bloodcollectors Due to lack of sanitary control a large number of bloodsellers were infected with HIV Starting from the mid1990s AIDS villages multiplied