Villagers Venlou in the central Chinese province of Henan, face discriminatory treatment in relation to HIV / AIDS.
In the village live ordinary Chinese who, despite their talents and hard work, anywhere can not find work outside their district.
The fault to the prevailing image everywhere, that all residents of the town of HIV-positive. They did not want to hire, and that is grown on the side of the village, because of the prejudices little bad sale at the provincial markets.
Even visiting these places Wen Jiabao, Premier of State Council of China last month, when he shook the hand of a man with HIV and eat local vegetables, has not brought tangible results for the villagers to sell vegetable products, reported the newspaper "China Daily".
The AIDS epidemic has come to the province of Henan at the end of the last century. HIV began to spread in rural areas of the province, according to the newspaper, after the blood transfusion has not been peasants, seek medical help. Another explanation for the causes of mass spread of the virus among the villagers did not exist because the local population had no other risk factors.
The most problematic in this regard has been Village Venlou - 70% of village families, people living with HIV, which then many moved to the stage of AIDS. Over the past few years, hundreds of peasants died of diseases associated with AIDS. Villagers were left virtually without income. It has become very difficult to sell products as soon as the buyers found out where she is.
Local businessman Yue Dunfen organized peasants to grow mushrooms. However, sales of mushrooms in the markets is far too difficult - playing the role of "bad" image of the village, despite the fact that HIV-positive are only permitted to grow mushrooms, and collecting and dealing with crop farmers do not have the virus.
Yue Dunfen plans to sell Mushrooms foreign buyers, because, he said, more than tolerate relate to people with HIV.
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