politics - AIDS: from a crime to a health crisis

The New York Times has a great, eh, also shocking story about 31-year old Almijian, a former heroin addict in Xinjiang province. He explains how he avoided to get AIDS, unlike his friends who shared needles, women and ultimately also AIDS.
His treatment with methadone illustrates also the great shift in the attitude of the government towards AIDS, from treating its victims like criminals into health victims.
It does not change the gruesome figures from Xinjiang: ten percent of China's AIDS-cases is from this muslim province.
(I will replace the link with one from the International Herald Tribune, when the story is available there.)