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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers have expressed alarm about cultures that favor male babies, saying sex-ratio imbalances could destabilize society because more men will remain unmarried, raising the risks of anti-social and violent behavior

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You really don't have to look for any sort of conspiricy, sadly there doesn't seem to be one although there does seem to be tension between the government and AIDS activists. As 90% of the blood is purchased from people directly and there is a bad economy with little to no HIV testing before donation in the countryside, the results were inevitable. The central government has more control on the cities, in the countryside the regional authorities were not interested in paying for AIDs testing; guess in which country you don't want to get a blood transfusion. In survey's of professional blood sellers the AIDS rate was quite high, there are some villiages in the Hanen province where the majority of adults are infected.

Most problems seems to come from donations in the mid-1990's, so here is a timeline if you are interested. The scandal broke in the early part of the 2000's. It's good to know about, I don't know how commonly known this is now as it wasn't something the Bush Administration had anything to do with so must not be all that interesting.

23 August 2001
The Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that “China admitted for the first time that tens of thousands of its citizens have been infected with the AIDS virus.” Deputy Health Minister Yin Dakui stated, “A large number of blood sellers have been infected with HIV due to illegal blood plasma.” The “illegal” blood collection stations usually collected and pooled blood from poor farmers, separated the plasma, and then returns the contaminated blood back to the donators. Yin said, that "so far the problem of HIV infection caused by blood donations had only affected several provinces in central China.”