By Benjamin Robertson
Beijing
05 December 2006
Nineteen Chinese AIDS patients have been awarded more than $1 million in compensation in a victory hailed by rights campaigners. Benjamin Robertson in Beijing reports.
The nineteen AIDS patients were infected by contaminated blood transfusions, and state media says their award of $1.2 million in compensation represents the biggest lawsuit of its kind in China.
Fifteen of the patients were infected while undergoing operations at a hospital in northern China's Heilongjiang province in 2004.Read More
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