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Barry
& Martin’s Prize and Prize-winners 2000 – 2007
The policy of the Trustees is
to award the prize to people and institutions all over
China
who have done excellent work in Aids prevention, treatment and care.
Our prize-winners are all selected on the grounds that they
have reached out and worked among the affected HIV patients and
vulnerable people. In
all cases our Trust continues to work with the prize-winners long
after the prize is awarded.
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The
first ( year 2000) Barry & Martin's Prize winner:
Professor Zhang Beichuan (left) of Qingdao Medical
School. Our 2003 Prize winner Dr. Gui Xien (see below)
is at right
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Our first prize, for the year 2000, was awarded to Dr Zhang
Beichuan of
Qingdao
for his work among the MSM community around
China
, especially developing Aids awareness and prevention among this
high risk population. We
have supported Dr Zhang Beichuan’s work since 1997 and through him
we support MSM groups in many cities around
China
. These groups cooperate
with the local CDC’s.
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The second (2001) Prize
winner: Dr. Wang Chun (middle) of Simao CDC, Yunnan
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Our second prize, for 2001,
was awarded to Dr Wang Chun of the Prefectural CDC in
Simao
,
Yunnan
for her caring work among Aids patients – “doing an ordinary job
in an extraordinary way”.
We continue to work with Dr.
Wang Chun had Simao health officials and support their work,
including our contribution to the building of a new infectious
diseases hospital, support for a factory employing only HIV
positive people and support for patients and orphans. Last year
Dr. Wang Chun's work was recognised by the central government,
which appointed her as one of two representatives to the National
Party Conference in Beijing, where she represents the interests
of HIV patients and women and minority peoples.
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The third (2002) prize
winner: Professor Xu Lianzhi of Beijing You’an Hospital
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Our third prize, for 2002 was
awarded to Dr Xu Lianzhi of Beijing You’an Hospital for her work
among Aids patients in
Beijing
from the beginning of the epidemic.
When Aids first came to
China
, and the fear of Aids resulted in wide-spread prejudice, Xu Lianzhi
visited the patients in their homes and took them in to her
hospital’s care. She
created within You’an Hospital the “Home of Loving
Care” which still reaches out to Aids patients.
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The fourth (2003) prize
winner: Professor Gui Xi-en (right) of Wuhan University
Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao visited Professor Gui's home
not long after he was awarded our prize.
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Our 4th prize, in
2003 was awarded to Dr Gui Xien of
Zhongnan
Hospital
,
Wuhan
University
for a lifetime devoted to the treatment of infectious diseases,
especially in
Qinghai
and in recent years with Aids infection in
Hubei
and
Henan
. Dr Gui reached out
especially to patients who had contracted HIV through blood
donations, and he first drew the attention of the authorities to
this problem and consistently cared for the victims.
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The fifth (2004) prize
winner: Nurse Wang Kerong of Beijing Ditan Hospital
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Our 5th prize, in
2004, was awarded to Nurse Wang Kerong of
Beijing Ditan
Hospital for her work
over many years in looking after Aids patients and travelling
around
China to teach other nurses
about Aids care. The
prize to Wang Kerong was intended as an encouraging signal to
the 1.9 million nurses around
China
of the importance of nurses in Aids care.
We continue to cooperate closely with Wang Kerong and
with the Red Ribbon Centre at
Beijing Ditan
Hospital
, for which she is responsible.
Our 6th prize, in
2005, was awarded in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,
to the CDC Hospital
in Urumqi and to the Needle
Syringe Programme in Yining
City ,
Yili Prefecture .
In both cases the prize reached out to the Uyghur minority
people of Xinjiang, who have been especially vulnerable to HIV
infection through drug use.
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2003 prizewinner Dr Gui Xien of Wuhan came up to Urumqi for
our prizegiving and he is seen here at centre between the
three Uyghur volunteers from the Needle Syringe Programme in
Yining City, Nuermaimaiti Palitahong, Mushajiang
Shateerjiang and Adili Aximu and the director of the CDC
Hospital Dr Yang Cheng Xin
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| Uyghur
volunteer Adili Aximu makes a speech in the Uyghur language
at the prizegiving.
This is being simultaneously translated into Mandarin
Chinese.
He told a moving story about how he and other Uyghur
people in Yili prefecture had taken to drugs and contracted
HIV, and the responsibility they felt for their families,
and the efforts they were making with the Needle Syringe
Programme to prevent infection in others.
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The seventh (2006) prize
winner:
Academician Professor
Zeng Yi
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Our
7th prize, in 2006, was awarded to Academician Professor
Zeng Yi. The
prize recognises the work which Professor Zeng Yi has done on
Aids education, prevention, treatment and research since the
start of the Aids epidemic in
America twenty seven years
ago. This was well
before the first cases of Aids in
China – and doctors and health officials
in China were thus better prepared
when the disease arrived. Professor
Zeng Yi has remained at the forefront of the battle against
Aids. He established
the Chinese Foundation for the Prevention of HIV/Aids.
He coordinated a key memorandum from the Chinese Academy to the State Council which formed
an important element of the Chinese Government’s strategy
on the prevention and control of Aids.
Professor Zeng Yi has travelled tirelessly to all corners
of China , including the poorest people on China
’s borders, explaining Aids education and treatment and combating
prejudice.
Our
8th prize, in 2007, was awarded in Dali Yunnan, to
Dr. Zhang Jianbo of Peggy Health Centre/The Second People's
Hospital of Dali. Dr. Zhang Jianbo has been looking after HIV/AIDS
patients for more than 10 years and treating patients without
prejudice and stigma. He outreached his work to the MSM and
female sex worker community for Aids awareness. With his
help we established the Good Friends Studio in Dali for MSM's
in the countryside around Dali.
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| Following
this award, Dr. Zhang was invited to
Beijing
to receive the Memorial Prize of the 20th
Anniversary of Fighting Aids.
This was shown live on
China
’s national television CCTV1 on
1 December 2007
– World Aids Day. This
photograph is from that television broadcast.
Since then, Dr. Zhang has been nominated as a Model
Worker of Yunnan. Our
Trust has been working with Dr. Zhang and his colleagues
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| Dr.
Zhang Jianbo has created a “Save the Kids Fund” at the
Peggy Health Centre and has donated his prize money of
RMB100,000 to this Fund. Here
are Martin and Ming Fang with Julia, our Trust’s adopted
daughter, and another friend
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