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Hutchinson Center and Chinese CDC to collaborate on research and training

November 4, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center formalized an ongoing relationship by signing

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2010, AIDS, China, Chinese, Disease Control, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, HIV, Hutchinson Center, United States, Vol 29 No 45 | November 6 - November 12

Contender for Nobel prize is in Chinese prison

October 7, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — When the police came for Liu Xiaobo on a December night nearly two years ago, they didn’t tell the dissident author why he was being taken away.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, AIDS, Andrew Nathan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Australian National University, Beijing, China, Chinese Communist Party, Columbia University, Dalai Lama, International Studies, Internet God, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Institute, South African, Velvet Revolution, Vol 29 No 41 | October 9 - October 15, Wan Yanhai, Xu Youyu, Zhou Duo, Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, letter

Renowned artist from India works on golden canvases around the world

September 30, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

What descriptive expressions come to mind when the word art is mentioned? Beautiful, moving, avant-garde, magnificent, shocking?

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Profiles Tagged With: 2008, 2009, 2010, AIDS, Balaram Das, Berlin, Chariot Festival, India, Lord Jagannath, Northwest Asian Weekly, Sudarsan Pattnaik, United States, Vivian Miezianko, Vol 29 No 40 | October 2 - October 8

Alaskan woman to take her health work globally in Laos

September 16, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Sitkan Nancy Knapp describes the country of Laos as “a different world” from Alaska. However, she found some similarities in the delivery of healthcare to rural areas.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, AIDS, Global Fund, HIV, Health Program, Laos, Mark Gorman, Peace Corps, Philippines, SEARHC, Sitka Sentinel, TB, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 29 No 38 | September 18 - September 24, World Education, World Health Organization

AIDS activists: Chinese colleague detained wrongly

August 26, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Police in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, AIDS, Asia Catalyst, Beijing, China, Chinese, HIV, New York-based, Tian Xi, Vol 29 No 35 | August 28 - September 3, Wan Yanhai, blog

Commentary: Encouraging Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to talk about HIV/AIDS

May 27, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Saving face can’t make you safe. Talk about HIV.” This was the slogan for the sixth annual observance of National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on May 19.

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2010, AAPI, AIDS, Asian Americans, Banyan Tree Project, HIV, Howard Koh, Human Services, KNOWIT, Pacific Islanders, STD, United States, Vol 29 No 22 | May 29 - June 4, White House Media Affairs Office, language

Chinese AIDS activist flees to United States after harassment

May 13, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Wan Yanhai is used to being harassed by authorities, but the un­wanted attention got steadily worse this year for the founder of a prominent Chinese AIDS advocacy group.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, AIDS, Aizhixing Institute, Beijing-based Ai, China, Chinese, HIV, Health Ministry, Hong Kong, Hu Jia, Kin-man Chan, United States, Vol 29 No 20 | May 15 - May 21, Wan Yanhai, Zeng Jingyan, attention, social media

America wages a new war in Vietnam — on AIDS

December 3, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“They told him, ‘There’s nothing we can do for you. Just go home and wait to die,”’ said Do Thi Phuong. When she contracted AIDS, she didn’t seek help, fearing that she would also be shunned. Instead, like her husband, she went home to die.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, AIDS, Cambodia, Chau Thi Anh Loan, Emergency Plan, Family Health International, HIV, International Development, Mai Hoa Center, Mai Hoang Anh, PEPFAR, South Vietnamese, Steve Mills, Tinh Bien, Tran Van Nhan, USAID, United States, Vol 28 No 50 | December 5 - December 11

Ban Ki-moon receives honorary degree from the UW and is ‘finally a Husky’

November 5, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Ban Ki-moon, the eighth United Nations Secretary-General, is a dawg. He’s a University of Washington (UW) Husky, that is. The university awarded him a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Oct. 27 at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.

Filed Under: Education, Community News Tagged With: 2009, AIDS, Austria, Ban Ki-moon, China Studies, Eumseong County, General Assembly President Han Seung-soo, International Relations, Iraqi High Tribunal, Meany Hall, Middle East, Saddam Hussein, Seoul National University, South Korean President Park Chung-hee, UW, United Nations, Vol 28 No 46 | November 7 - November 13

Magsaysay Awards, Asian version of Nobels, awarded

August 6, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An activist from military-ruled Myanmar who has documented human rights and environmental abuses, and a Thai scientist who devoted her life to finding a cheaper AIDS drug were among the 2009 winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2009, AIDS, AZT, Antonio Oposa Jr, Deep Joshi, Green Banking, Green Watershed, India, Ka Hsaw Wa, Krisana Kraisintu, MANILA, Myanmar, Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Thailand, Yu Xiaogang, vol 28 no 33 | August 8 - August 14

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