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NEW DELHI， Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- India has helped a Pakistani boy reunite with his mother on the border in Wagah near Amritsar town in the northern state of Punjab.


The five-year-old boy， Iftikhar Ahmed， was brought to India by his father last year. His mother claims that her former husband， who is from the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir， had brought their child to India on the pretext of attending a marriage ceremony and then left behind.


"I am extremely happy to have my son back. I am thankful to the Pakistani government for its help for return of my child，" Iftikhar's mother Rohina Kiyani told the media after Indian border guards handed him over to Pakistani Rangers in Wagah Saturday.


"I had lost all hope of getting my child back. It's not a less than a miracle for me."


However， Kiyani's journey to get back her son had not been that easy. She had to file a case in an Indian court， with the help of the Pakistan's High Commission in the national capital， and prove that the boy is a Pakistani citizen. The court had ruled in her favor in May last year.

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No one expected that the large-scale blood donation in Wenlou village, Henan Province more than 20 years ago could have led to a huge HIV epidemic that took hundreds of people's lives. To date, more than 300 people in Wenlou are living with HIV and its symptoms. While the tragedy is irrevocable, now the "AIDS village" is looking to the future. With assistance from the government, it is striving to walk out of the shadow and create a better life for future generations.


On the day the first snows came to Wenlou village Cheap Vans Old Skool Pro Black White , Central China's Henan Province, 37-year-old Liu Geling rode his tricycle to nearby villages to sell fruits; 72-year-old Lin Xiumei cleared the snow from her makeshift kitchen; 60-year-old Guo Xiu explored her vegetable patch to check on her produce; while 38-year-old Liu Hengguo got up to boil water and wash his sick wife's face.


Simply everyday life in a normal village.


But in this village, one cannot avoid looking at the graves that crowd one field, just as people like Liu, Lin and Guo can never seem to escape their identity as HIV-positive people. Wenlou, in Shangcai county became one of the areas in the country most affected by HIV around 20 years ago after hundreds of villagers contracted the virus when selling their blood.


Blood for bricks


Liu Geling's family survived the disaster but it has left scars.


In the early 1990s vans slip on ireland , when everyone wanted to "get rich quickly" and when donating blood to save lives was advertised as a glorious deed, many people in the rural, remote and impoverished central plains chose to sell their blood for money, making that region an ideal place to collect cheap blood.


The blood collectors worked in blood stations built by county or township health departments. At that time, selling blood was so popular that a slogan circulated in Henan saying "Stretching your arm and clenching your hand means 50 yuan a time." In the early 1990s, 50 yuan could buy around 50 kilograms of rice. But though they made money vans toy story ireland , unsanitary blood collecting posed risks of disease infection.


According to older Wenlou residents, they traditionally depended on planting vegetables, but they could barely survive doing that. What they got from 10 years of growing vegetables could not even cover the costs of building three brick rooms.


According to Guo, who was among the first to contract HIV in the village, people in Wenlou started to sell their blood in the 1980s. And by 1995, almost all families had at least one member selling blood.


"My wife and I built three brick rooms by selling our blood vans sk8 hi ireland , but the second year after the house was finished, my wife was diagnosed as having HIV and now she is an AIDS patient," Liu Hengguo told The Beijing News.


"Many people sold blood to build houses. If you want to find the HIV-positive people in the village, just go find the brick houses," a villager said.


Liu Geling, a teenager at that time vans old skool womens ireland , offered to sell his blood too, but his grandfather forbid him from doing so. But his elder sister Liu Ling sold her blood to help the family build. She was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2001 and died the following year, leaving her two daughters behind.


According to the statistics from the Ministry of Health, of the 3,170 villagers in Wenlou, about 1 vans old skool white ireland ,310 donated blood before 1995. By November 1999, 43.48 percent of the donors were HIV-positive. As of the end of 2015, more than 200 people have died due to the disease in Wenlou.


A long way back


Liu Geling didn't sell his blood, but he was still diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2003 while he was working in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province. He guesses that he may have been infected when he got an injection in Wenlou. But unlike his sister, he was saved.


In June 1999 vans old skool black ireland , Gui Xi'en, a doctor from Zhongnan Hospital under Wuhan University went to Wenlou and made the situation there known to the public. Later, after media reports, the village was known by the outside world as the "AIDS village."


In 2003, then Chinese vice premier Wu Yi visited Wenlou. In the same year, the village was listed as one of the 51 areas that required urgent HIV prevention and control. From then on vans old skool ireland , HIV-positive people in Wenlou could receive anti-retroviral medicine and treatment for free.


Then former premier Wen Jiabao visited the village twice respectively in 2005 and 2007. This attention played an essential role in the response to the epidemic. According to statistics, no new cases have been found since August 2004, and among the more than 300 HIV-positive residents of Wenlou, mortality has reached a normal level.


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