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China
's first
publicly-funded gay bar, in Dali, southwest
China
's Yunan province. Volunteers have delayed opening the facility
following intense media attention, an NGO said Wednesday, highlighting
the still taboo nature of homosexuality in the country.
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A
drag queen performer is seen at a bar in Dali, Yunnan province, November
23, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer
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A
Pakistani home-based sex worker in
Karachi
. Many of the prostitutes who work in Pakistan's largest metropolis and
one of the biggest Muslim cities in the world, have never heard about
HIV and AIDS and those that do explain that clients refuse to wear
condoms despite the risk of infection. (AFP/File/Rizwan Tabassum)
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HIV infected child cries during an injection at a children's home in the
industrial city of
Makeevka
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Volunteers
from Red Cross
China
take part in an AIDS-awareness event on World AIDS Day in
Beijing
. Calls for an end to discrimination against sufferers rang out on World
AIDS Day on Tuesday as South Africa, the country worst affected by the
pandemic, rolled out a new battleplan to beat the virus. (AFP/AFP)
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