Ex-hospital director opens China’s only school for HIV-positive children to provide shelter

A former hospital director in northern China has dedicated over two decades to creating an educational sanctuary for children living with HIV. Guo Xiaoping, 63, a former director of an infectious diseases hospital in Linfen, Shanxi province, began his mission in 2004 after discovering children in hospital’s Aids ward who had reached school age but lacked access to proper education. He transformed a ward into a makeshift classroom, where he and the nurses taught Pinyin and multiplication...

By Zoey Zhang