Sam’s academic backgroundResearch Center for Medical Sociology at Tsinghua UniversityArthur Kleinman at Harvardresearch focus on stigma related to HIVHIV in China SARS epidemic in 2003 moved the Chinese government to acknowledge the HIV issue in China3 causes: blood transfusions, drugs, sexual intercourseblood shortage gave rise to intermediary agencies to help bring in blood donations, especially blood plasma — lack of regulation allowed unsanitary practices, which the government has since shut downneedle exchange programs: free sanitary needles for drug usersHIV awareness framed as a non-Chinese problemHIV education and NGOs Gates FoundationThe Global Fundlots of unregistered civil society organizationsoperation in China difficult for all NGOsTechnological means of HIV prevention capacity buildingHIV prevention program through online community, supported by The Global Fund starting in 20072012 saw the development of Blued, an app inspired by Grindr and Jack’d (which were only available to English-speaking users)technology enabled a lighter framing of HIV issueeffectiveness of getting tested –> impact on HIV awarenessSESH group – social entrepreneurship to spur healthimportance of working with communitiesStigma late 1990s/early 2000s: kids born with HIVARV – antiretroviral drugslegal cases where people were discriminated against in e.g. employment because of HIVdiscrimination against HIV-positive patients at hospitalsSex Ed Sticky Rice LoveLGBTQ* Rights in Hong Kong with Geoffrey YeungPink Alliance HKepisode on LGBTQ* rights  in Taiwan with Lucie Liu (German)heterosexual transmission of HIV in China: one of top two sources of transmission in ChinaClosing Words Photo: CC BY-NC 2.0 by psit (Flickr)