Ma Xiaowei, vice minister of health, visited a group of children
whose parents have died of AIDS at China's first summer camp for
the orphans Thursday, on behalf of Vice-Premier Wu Yi.
The summer camp is cosponsored by the China Youth Concern
Committee, foundation for the prevention of sexual transmitted
infections and AIDS, and the UNICEF. It has 72 members from Shanxi,
Jilin, Sichuan, Henan and Yunnan provinces.
These children have expressed their hope to meet the vice
premier who has visited families affected by AIDS in a village in
Henan at the end of last year.
Currently, there are 37.8 million Aids patients or HIV-carriers
in the world and 15 million children whose parents have died of the
disease.
(Xinhua News Agency August 13, 2004)