According to The Global Times, the HIV/AIDS initiative jointly launched by the Gates Foundation and the Chinese government has been criticized in China.

UNICEF has formally released an anniversary report on the aid it has offered to the earthquake devastated area in China over the past year.

Following the Chinese Ministry of Health's fourth national health survey, the global healthcare conglomerate Pfizer Inc. and microfinance specialist PlaNet Finance are collaborating on an in-depth research project on the healthcare needs of the working poor in China.

France-based Merieux Group and the Public Health and Medical Center of Nanjing University have signed a cooperation agreement for HIV/AIDS research.

Yuan Nansheng, China's ambassador to Zimbabwe, has delivered USD12,000 donated by Chinese diplomats and overseas Chinese in Zimbabwe to Harare's Dawn HIV/AIDS Care Center.

Beijing's Chaoyang District Disease Control Center has disclosed to the media that from December 2008 Chaoyang Chinese AIDS Intervention Team will implement a saliva test for HIV/AIDS virus.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Health, the country has about 700,000 HIV/AIDS virus carriers and patients, of which about 440,000 may not be aware that they have been infected with the disease.