By coco su | Project Manage
Shanghai Qingai Health Centre has so far successfully located 3 events after the project launch application went through in May. There will be one on this Sunday (13 August) , currently open for signing up.
The followings are the details of those 3 events:
13 May 19:00 - 21:00 Sharing Club on HIV+ Patients’ Medical Rights
We hosted this event because of a recent case in Qingai. How to defend the medical rights of HIV+ patients? How to defend in a proper and legitimate way? How to use the law as our weapon against unfair treatments? As a healthy person, how can we provide help, mental support and reasonable advice for the HIV+s? To solve these problems and offer support, Qingai invited pro bono lawyer, Zhang Shanshan, representative for the AIDS community, Xiao Qiang and Anti-AIDS frontier fighter, Secretary-General of Shanghai Qingai, Bo Jiaqing to share with our audience.
On the day of the event, we have 30 sign-ups and an actual participation of 26. The event costed 600RMB for 2 lecturers.
The 3 sharers, based on real cases, talked about the problems HIV+ patients may face when getting medical care and how to solve them in their own fields. Bo Jiaqing concluded:“The two parties in HIV+ patients’ medical care problem may both be victims, because we have such bad promotion and education on AIDS.” Recently I heard someone say that our country has an AIDS penetration of 90%. I laughed and wanted to correct him, because it’s more appropriate to say that we have a 90% penetration of the word “AIDS”. Even the medical students are ignoring the problem right now. As a huge medical accident just occurred in Zhejiang Province due to the improper operation of a medical worker. (On 9 February, 5 people were infected with HIV because a medical worked didn't dispose a used straw and continued to operate on others with that. It was recognized as a severe medical accident and the worker was arrested for committing a crime. Many managers in the hospital were resigned.) What we can do is try as hard as we can to promote AIDS, therefore create an equal society where more HIV+ patients accept antiviral treatment. Effective treatment can reduce the the amount of virus to a level that it can’t be detected and spread to others, so it’s the best way to eliminate the patient-hospital conflicts from beginning. And hat’s why we choose medical school applicants first when we provide ADIS education to the society. How to educate common citizens when the medical schools aren't aware of AIDS?”
15 June 14:30 - 16:30 The AIDS and Marriage of convenience for LGBT
We have a lot of HIV+ patients in China, but only a few are willing to stand out and make a noise. Among them, Ken is one with appeal and action.
In LGBT people’s real lives, we can’t help but face a lot of problems, such as when we are diagnosed with AIDS, the society tends to convict us of double crimes, “wrong sex orientation” and “immoral”. Or when we refuse to marry an opposite sex, our family stresses us with their love, wanting us to live the so-called normal life. So, in this sharing, Ken and the audience mainly talked about 2 topics, “The Prevention of AIDS and How to Tackle after Getting Infected” and “Marriage of Convenience”(Refer to marriage in which a gay/lesbian person married an opposite sex who they don’t love.). They shared their joys and sorrows of being in the minority group, and tried to figure out together future goals.
On the day of the event, we have 26 sign-ups and an actual participation of 20. The event costed 600RMB for 1 lecturer.
Ken acknowledged the whole process and related information from finding out the infection to getting proper treatment, along with what we need to know about AIDS. He also told the experience from diagnosis to going back to a normal life based on true stories of himself and others. And then he shared his view on marriage of convenience and offered his person advice.
5 August 14:30 - 16:30 Talking to AIDS —— The Reborn Diary of Ben
Accidental opportunity falls, our colleague in Qingai, Ben, let the public know he’s an HIV+ patient. This means stress and challenge for him and everyone in Qinghai, because we don’t know what we’ll be facing in this society full of misunderstandings and prejudice. Luckily, we received more wishes than discrimination, and a lot more supporting words and actions than expected. That’s why we decided to hold an event where Ben can share his story of being a frontier fighter for AIDS, and give more people strength and warning. He can help those uninfected learn self-protection and those infected improve life quality.
On the day of the event, we have 33 sign-ups and an actual participation of 35. The event costed 300RMB for 1 lecturer.
The event was conducted by Fire (Qingai’s guest author) and Ben in the form of interview and interaction. During the event, Ben answered questions about pre and post period conditions of AIDS, medicine use, life standard, blocking medicines aside from telling his own experience. And he gave out a lot of hand-written postcards for the audience.
In the meantime, we were live-streaming our event on social media and had about 491 live audience and a total audience of 1000.
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