Aid for HIV/AIDS
Dec 12, 2019
4 minutes
By Yuan Yuan
Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo
Junjun (not his real name) is 18 years old and HIV-positive, but unlike many people living with HIV/AIDS in China, he is comfortable in front of the cameras.
Born with HIV and orphaned after both his parents died of AIDS in 2004 when he was only 3 years old, Junjun was placed in the AIDS Orphan Salvation Association (AOS) in Fuyang in Anhui Province, east China, the same year. He has lived there ever since.
AOS was founded in 2003, as one of the first non-governmental organizations (NGO) in China aimed at helping AIDS orphans. Director Zhang Ying used
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