More care promised for AIDS patients (2)

Zhao Yan, deputy director of the center's AIDS treatment and care division, said: "However, many of them, particularly those specializing in infectious diseases, are not competent enough to treat other diseases like cancer or eye conditions."

Meng Lin, a member of the China Alliance of People Living with HIV/AIDS, said: "It's just makeshift measures to meet other medical demands at designated hospitals".

Meng, an AIDS patient in Beijing, suffered kidney problems as a side effect of anti-retroviral drugs in August.

"I first went to a designated hospital specializing in treating infections, but they couldn't treat kidney disease at all," he said. "I just want to go to the right hospital, where my disease can be treated properly."

He added that he was rejected numerous times while seeking medical services at non-designated hospitals. "I was denied even in non-surgery cases," he said.

Meng admitted that he used to hide his status from doctors to get treatment. "I have no way out. Lie or die."

China issued a regulation on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in 2006. It stipulates that no hospital can deny treatment on grounds of a patient being HIV-positive.

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