“A young girl warms her hands in winter. Her father is infected with HIV and still cares for five children and his elderly parents. In the mid-1990s, poor peasants in Henan province sold their blood for 50 yuan a pint, enough to buy two bags of fertilizer. As a result of unsafe procedures, a large number of them were infected with the HIV virus. In some villages up to 40 percent of the inhabitants are seropositive, but for a long time have been isolated from help because the existence of AIDS in China was not officially acknowledged.”
December, 2018. Acclaimed photographer Lu Guang arrested in far west China…
