NE China Launches HIV Insurance for Medical Workers

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NE China Launches HIV Insurance for Medical Workers

A health insurance service for medical workers who risk infection with the HIV virus has been launched by New China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. in Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

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A health insurance service for medical workers who risk infection with the HIV virus has been launched by New China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. in Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

A medical worker, who pays 400 yuan for the insurance service, will receive 10,000 yuan from the company if they are infected with HIV at work, the company said Wednesday.

The insurance service started Tuesday, claims to be the first covering HIV/AIDS in China.

Some medical workers risk being infected by the virus due to frequent contact with HIV-infected and AIDS patients, the company source said.

China was estimated to have more than one million HIV carriers by the end of 2002, a figure which increases by more than 30 percent annually, according to the Ministry of Health.

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