Chinese school isolating its HIV-positive students just shows we need better awarenes
 

Chinese school isolating its HIV-positive students just shows we need better awareness
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On Wednesday, millions sat for China's **toriously grueling two-day college entrance exam, k**wn as the gaokao.

While everyone files into testing facilities for the exam, 16 kids in **rthern China's Shanxi province will sit the test in isolation — because they're HIV-positive.

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The students go to the Linfen Red Ribbon School, the only institution of its kind in China. Linfen was set up over a decade ago specifically to provide education to HIV-positive kids.*

The school has always maintained that it serves as a safe-haven for the HIV-positive community, away from society's discrimination and rejection — often even from even their families. Read more...

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