Chinese school isolating its HIV-positive students just shows we need better awareness

On Wednesday, millions sat for China's notoriously grueling two-day college entrance exam, known as the gaokao.

While everyone files into testing facilities for the exam, 16 kids in northern China's Shanxi province will sit the test in isolation — because they're HIV-positive.

The students go to the Linfen Red Ribbon School, the only institution of its kind in China. Linfen was set up over a decade ago specifically to provide education to HIV-positive kids. 

The school has always maintained that it serves as a safe-haven for the HIV-positive community, away from society's discrimination and rejection — often even from even their families. Read more...