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Around 20 people petitioning major state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm in Beijing for compensation after they became infected with HIV/AIDS have vowed to renew their appeal, following clashes with police in which three people were injured.  >>more>>
 

 
 
Amid a global slowdown in new HIV infections, sex workers and gay men in East Asia are increasingly vulnerable to the virus, in a region where access to treatment is still below the world average.  >>more>>
 

 
 
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang have executed two people for their role in a tainted baby milk scandal which killed at least six children and sickened hundreds of thousands.  >>more>>
 

 
 
A second wave of lead poisoning cases creates an outcry near a smelting plant in Hunan.  
 
 
Residents of Mandalay say hospitals routinely charge patients for donated blood.  
 

 
Villagers in rural China take factories to task after their children get lead poisoning.  
 
 
Chinese authorities detain five after a protest over a blood-test scam in Sichuan.  
 

 
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Lead, arsenic in Burmese medicine
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