Woman's thought bubble: "I've heard you can contract AIDS from holding hands or eating with an infected person."
Man's thought bubble: "I believe I could get AIDS from a mosquito bite."
Voice over guy: "Actually mosquito bites and and holding hands, eating with infected persons can not cause you to contract AIDS. Don't misunderstand AIDS. And even more, don't discriminate against AIDS carriers."
"Good friends are friends, whether they have AIDS or not. Let our world not have misunderstanding or discrimination." - Yao Ming.
Video: AIDS awareness commercial with Yao Ming
Happy World AIDS Day, but not for HIV-infected Chinese children
It's World AIDS Day! In case you didn't know, World AIDS day is about "raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education" regarding AIDS around the world. So, to do our part, here's a heartbreaking piece on the difficulties of children with HIV in China: they're banned from schools and many are abandoned by their parents and left to live and die in AIDS orphanages. Around 10,000 children in China are HIV-positive, mostly due to bad blood transfusions or mother-to-child transmission. Remember, you can do your part too: get involved!
Yao Ming joins UN fight against HIV discrimination in China
Happy World AIDS Day! China's golden boy and long-time Houston Rockets player Yao Ming has agreed to join the United Nation's push to address discrimination among Chinese people towards those infected with HIV. The new awareness campaign follows the release of the first UNAIDS HIV/AIDS report in China last month, the results of which demonstrated the significant stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS in China's medical field as well as the general population.

