title: Consequences of the commercialisation of plasma and blood in China.
abstract: HIV infection as a consequence of blood transfusions and blood by-products has occurred in many developed countries from the outset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In China the introduction of the market economy and commercialisation of blood and blood products after 1989 has lead to the spread of HIV infection among poor peasants living in the Chinese interior. In this review a history of HIV infections was presented showing that blood and blood products cannot be treated as commercial goods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Community Nursing, Medical University of Białystok, Poland. dszadkowska@umwb.edu.pl
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rogowska-Szadkowska
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002681:China; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D055256:Infectious Disease Incubation Period; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D010949:Plasma / Q000821:virology*; D011203:Poverty; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D040241:Social Marketing