[AMA-e-News] Asian Media Access, E-Newsletter - One Additional Event this Week

[Johnny Chio]

One additional Event happening this week in case you are interested.
Thanks!


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On Friday, March 23 at 3:00 p.m., Dr. Gao Yaojie's Lecture - 'AIDS in China"
at UMN.

Dr. Gao Yaojie known as "Grandmother Courage" visits the U.S. for the first
time to receive humanitarian award.  Dr. Gao will present a lecture at the
University of Minnesota, Moos Tower, Room 2-530.

This event is cosponsored by the Program in Human Rights and Health of the
School of Public Health, and the Chinese American Student Association.

On Saturday, March 24, at 10:00 a.m., Dr. Gao will repeat her presentation
for the public, describing her humanitarian work and reporting on the
current status of AIDS prevention and treatment in China.  This event will
be at the International Institute of Minnesota, 1694 Como Avenue, St. Paul.

Dr. Gao was the first person to publicly expose the tainted blood selling
programs that led to widespread H.I.V. infection in rural Chinese villages.
During the early and mid-1990s, village and provincial officials established
programs to pay poor farmers for blood, which was often collected with
unsanitary practices.  Estimates vary as to the extent of the resulting AIDS
epidemic, but in some villages much of the adult population has died or is
infected.  In the province of Henan, AIDS orphans number in the tens of
thousands.

Dr. Gao is in the U.S. to receive the 2007 Vital Voices Global Women's
Leadership Award for Human Rights in Washington, D.C., on March 14. Vital
Voices honors extraordinary women leaders who are at the forefront of
political, social and economic progress in their societies.  The honorary
co-chairs of the Vital Voices Global Partnership include Senators Kay
Bailey Hutchison and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sally Field, Andrea Mitchell
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus.