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The World Health Organisation (WHO) issued new advice on the treatment of HIV Monday, the eve of World AIDS day, saying drugs should be given earlier and even be prescribed to breastfeeding mothers.
The WHO says that adults and adolescents should receive anti-retroviral therapy (ART) when their immune system strength falls below 350 cells per cubic millimeter of blood. In 2006, the WHO had set the level at 200 cells per cubic millimeter.
“These new recommendations are based on the most up-to-date available data,” said Hiroki Nakatani, assistant director-general for HIV/ AIDS, TB, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases at the WHO. “Their widespread adoption will enable many more people in high-burden areas to live longer and healthier lives.”
The WHO also recommended that pregnant women exposed to the virus be treated with anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) starting during the 14th week of pregnancy, and that treatment could continue during breastfeeding.
“Several clinical trials have shown the efficacy of ARVs in preventing transmission to the infant while breastfeeding,” a WHO statement said.
The WHO also said Stavudine, a relatively cheap HIV/AIDS drug that is widely used in developing countries, should be replaced with Zidovudine and Tenofovir, as they have less harmful side effects.

People in Gansu Province who have the HIV virus must inform their sexual partners within a month after they learn of the diagnosis, or risk criminal punishment, according to a new rule issued by the provincial health department.
The new rule was met with reservations from members of some AIDS support groups.
“The measure lacks human care because it’s too high a price for HIV carriers to inform others in China where discrimination on AIDS often leads to the collapse of whole families,” Mu Rongfeng, the leading member of Ai Zhi Guang (light of love) care group for HIV carriers, told the Global Times Wednesday.
“What they need is sympathy and help instead of administrative orders,” Mu said.
The rule stipulates that HIV carriers should also ask their partners to get a medical test, China Youth Daily reported.
Carriers who failed to do so would be regarded as intentionally spreading the virus.
They might be held responsible for civil compensation and even subject to criminal liability.
The provincial health authority said 41.89 percent of AIDS patients in the province contracted the disease through sexual contact.
Liu Wei, a legal advisor of the Aizhixing Institute of Health Education, suggested that both parties in a sexual relationship are responsible to prevent the spread of HIV.
“It’s unfair to put the burden of criminal responsibility on the carriers. Some may feel reluctant to go for HIV tests under huge social pressure,” he told the Global Times.
Wang Taixian, an administrative law expert of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, said legal channels, recognition from other community members and love should be used collectively to tackle the spread of AIDS.

China’s Ministry of Health said Tuesday that four deaths had been reported after inoculated with China-made A(H1N1) flu vaccine and three had been confirmed irrelevant to the vaccines.
The three deaths were “coincidental” and causes of the other death are yet to be finalized, Liang Wannian, director of the ministry’s emergency response office, said at a press conference.
Of the 26.18 million people nationwide who had been vaccinated by Monday, 2,867 suspected adverse reactions had been reported, Liang said. About four fifths of the reactions were fever or swelling.
“Clinical tests and practices in China and other countries have shown the A(H1N1) flu vaccines are safe,” Liang said.
As of Sunday, the Chinese mainland had reported 178 deaths from the flu. More than 90,000 people were infected and nearly 80 percent had recovered.
Liang warned that the flu situation in China was still “severe” with an increasing number of deaths and more counties and municipalities reporting confirmed cases.
The proportion of A(H1N1) flu also increased greatly to about 90percent of all flu cases in the past weeks.
Liang said schools were still the main venue for prevention.

While it is possible to get to Datong, Shanxi Province by train, we chose to drive. It is a three-hour-plus trip from Beijing and somewhat precarious due to the countless number of trucks driving according to their own traffic rules along the way.
Datong itself was nothing much of interest to us. It is an industrial city covered in coal dust. It is however, the starting point for most of the tours to the wonderful Yungang Caves and Hengshan Hanging Monastery.
From Datong you can either book a tour with a travel company or venture out yourself – finding the place is not too difficult, espe-cially if you speak Chinese.
Yungang Caves, or Yungang Grottoes, is a UNESCO world heritage listed site and is considered one of the most outstanding examples of ancient Chinese sculpture. All together the site is composed of 53 grottoes with 1,000 small niches holding more than 51,000 Buddha statues from very large to very small.
The grottoes were mainly constructed from 460-525 during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386- 534) under imperial and in later periods, private patronage.

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NAIROBI, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Kenya’s Patrick Konchellah, the 1994 Commonwealth Games champion, has died in Rift Valley where he was recouping. He was 41.
Konchellah will be most remembered for his achievement on the track especially in 1994 when he clinched the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Born on April 20, 1968, in Kilgoris to a comparatively “progressive” Konchellahs’ family — his uncle was a prominent Member of Parliament — Patrick passed away Sunday morning after over two months struggle with cancer of stomach.

Together with his elder brother Billy Konchellah, a two-time world champion in 800m, they epitomized Maasai domination in the two-lap race, both in the country and internationally where through them, Kenya has won several accolades.

Henry Longfellow, a U.S. poet once said, when a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, shines on the paths of men.

Patrick light will certainly shine in the path of World Junior 800m finalist in Bydgoszcz, Felix Konchellah, who is one of the six children and a widow that Patrick leaves behind from his two marriages.

“It is a blow to us. We were not expecting him to die suddenly because he had shown improvements in his struggle with the disease. But that is it, he is gone and all we are left with are fond memories of his action. He was a very generous man,” said Billy.

Athletics Kenya Chairman Isaiah Kiplagat expressed his shock on the death of Patrick and extended his condolences to the family and friends during this hard time.

“It is with great shock that we learnt of his death. He was a great athlete of course coming from a family with strong roots in athletics. He had a bright future in the sport and could have been a great coach or talent searcher in the Maasai had he lived longer,” said Kiplagat.

Patrick’s life will however, not lack controversies. He was primed to succeed his brother Billy as the new world champion but problems with beer caused him an early retirement after he won Kenyan trials for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but ailed and missed the Olympics. He never recovered to gain his form.

BEIJING, Dec. 1 — The Japanese anime “Detective Conan 2009: The Raven Chaser”, the 13th movie of the Conan manga series, will show in Chinese cinemas during the 2010 new year season, its domestic publisher has confirmed.
Big news for China’s many Detective Conan fans, the announcement marks China’s first theatrical screening of the series, which debuted in 1997 and has run for 13 years.

Detective Conan, a serialized manga started in 1994 and written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama, follows the adventures of Kudo Shinichi, a 17-year-old detective who has to solve a series of crimes after being transformed into a child while investigating an illegal trade.

The Detective Conan TV episodes helped fuel its popularity in other parts of Asia, as the comic series has been aired outside of Japan for almost a decade.

Since 1997, each of the 13 feature films based on the comic sensation has been released in April. The latest one earned over 3.4 billion yen in Japan, the highest-grossing film of the series.

One Chinese-dubbed version of the 2009 Conan film will be screened alongside the original Japanese one during its run in China’s theaters.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) — Taking advantage of wide expectation and lingering loyalty to the original film of “The Twilight Saga,” the sequel “New Moon” has kept the No. 1 billing at the North America box office with a haul of 42.5 million dollars over three days beginning on Black Friday, latest projection suggested Sunday.

Entering into the second-week screening in Canada and the United States, the vampire romance is expected to fetch 231 million dollars in combined ticket sales, the North America box office authorities estimated. In the meantime, ever increasing number of merrymaking moviegoers in the region has “obliterated” the previous record by buying 278 million dollars worth of tickets, or an increase of 34 million dollars over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday last year, representing an 8.7 percent increase in studio revenue this year.
A Summit Entertainment production that based on a series of four novels by author Stephenie Meyer, “New Moon” is directed by Chris Weitz instead of Catherine Hardwicke in the first installment. However, the movie is exceptionally faithful to the 2008 beginnings. The success of the teen romance is originated from the big-effort promotion by the Summit Entertainment that saw major actors and actresses making a pitch in 15 major cities across North America.

OTTAWA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — After four years in office, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit Beijing this week — a trip many influential Canadians believe is long overdue.
To gauge Canadians’ views of the Prime Minister’s trip to China, Xinhua recently interviewed leading Canadian academics, former politicians and other opinion shapers.

A SIGNIFICANT TRIP

All the interviewees agree that this is a very significant trip, for both China and Canada, given China’s stature on the world stage continues to grow.

“I think it is extremely important that China and Canada reenergize their relationship,” David Emerson, Canada’s former International Trade Minister, told Xinhua during a phone interview. He called the visit “an important milestone.”

Former Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Pierre S. Pettigrew said the delay in making the visit was a bad start but the prime minister was correcting his mistakes.

“It took the prime minister a long time, almost four years in office before visiting China,” he said.

However, Barbara McDougall, Canada’s former Secretary of State for External Affairs in the early 1990s, said the timing of the Prime Minister’s visit was good. “I think it will be a comfortable and productive meeting,” McDougall said.

Peter Harder, President of the Canada-China Business Council, said it was an interesting moment for Harper’s visit, given he was the chairman of the upcoming G8 and co-chairman of the G20 summits. Harder said the most important “deliverable” of this visit was that it took place.

“Traditionally, China and Canada have had very good relations, and this goes back a long time,” said Gregory Chin, who served in Canada’s embassy in Beijing from 2004 to 2006. This is an opportune moment for Prime Minister Harper and Chinese leaders to strengthen their personal relationship.

Jean Michel Laurin, Vice-President for Global Business Policy at Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, said he expected the PM’s visit to help “Canadian companies and Chinese companies do more business.”