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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• News Briefs
In First, China Allows AIDS-Infected Woman to Marry Healthy Man, State Media Say
November 25, 2002 A woman with HIV will marry an uninfected man in a ceremony in Beijing on Sunday to mark World AIDS Day, according to the Xinhua News Agency. It is the first time China will allow such a union. The woman, 28, is a former drug addict who contracted HIV from dirty needles. She has lived for four years with her fiancé. The couple got approval to marry from officials in Guizhou, a poor southern region known as a drug-smuggling route. Xinhua said health officials and experts invited the couple to wed in the capital to lift the profile of an HIV conference to be held there.
Excerpted from:Back to other CDC news for November 25, 2002 Associated Press 11.25.02 This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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