Barry & Martin's Trust Annual Prize
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. The prize was first awarded in 2000.
Our prize winners:
2000
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.
The first (year 2000) Barry and Martin’s Prize winner: Professor Zhang Beichaun (left) of Quingdao Medical School
2001
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”. She is a member of the Lahu people.
We continue to work with Dr. Wang Chun and 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. Dr. Wang Chun's work was recognised by the central government, which appointed her as one of two representatives from her prefecture to the National Party Conference in Beijing, where she represented the interests of HIV patients and women and minority peoples.
The second (2001) Prize winner: Dr. Wang Chun (middle) of Simao CDC, Yunnan
2002
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.
The third (2002) prize winner: Professor Xu Lianzhi of Beijing You’an Hospital. This 2015 photo shows her, at over 80, still visiting the patients.
2003
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 patients 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.
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.
2004
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.
The fifth (2004) prize winner: Nurse Wang Kerong of Beijing Ditan Hospital
2005
Our 6th prize, in 2005, was awarded in the Xinjiang Uighur 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 Uighur minority people of Xinjiang, who have been especially vulnerable to HIV infection through drug use.
Our 2003 prizewinner Dr Gui Xien of Wuhan came up to Urumqi for our prizegiving and he is seen here at centre between the three Uighur 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
Uighur volunteer Adili Aximu makes a speech in the Uighur language at the prizegiving. This is being simultaneously translated into Mandarin Chinese. He told a moving story about how he and other Uighur 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.
2006
Our 7th prize, in 2006, was awarded to Academician Professor Zeng Yi. The prize recognised the work which Professor Zeng Yi had done on Aids education, prevention, treatment and research since the start of the Aids epidemic in America thirty five 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.
The seventh (2006) prize winner: Academician Professor Zeng Yi
2007
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 20 years and treating patients without prejudice or discrimination. He was the first doctor outside the big cities to reach out to gays and female sex workers. The Centre has the best rates of adherence and the least mortality of any Aids clinic in China.
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 National Model Worker. Our Trust has been working with Dr. Zhang and his colleagues since 1998.
Dr. Zhang Jianbo has created a “Save the Kids Fund” at the Peggy Health Centre and 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
2008
Our 9th prize in 2008 was awarded to two gay HIV positive men, who are 'out' about their infection and their sexuality. These were Meng Lin of Beijing and Murong Feng of Baoding, Hebei, who both devote all their time to helping others in China in the same situation.
2009
Our 10th prize in 2009 was awarded to a grass roots doctor in Dehong Prefecture Yunnan, Yin Zuluan; and to Dr Niu Quan Ji of Deng Feng City, Zhengzhou, Henan.
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Yunnan
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2010
Our 11th prize in 2010 was awarded to Nurse Fu Yan of Beijing You'an Hospital; and to three nurses from Xinjiang, Nurse Awagu Batuer of Kashgar, Nurse Guan Jianping of Urumqi and Nurse Chang Yanlong of Yining City, Yili Prefecture.
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Yining
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Urumqi
2011
Our 12th prize in 2011 was awarded in Chengdu, Sichuan to Madam Wen Xianmin of the Chengdu Contagious Diseases Hospital and Wang Xiaodong of the Chengdu Gay Care Centre.
2012
Our 13th prize in 2012 was awarded to Dr Cai Weiping (second from left below) of the No 8 Infectious Diseases Hospital in Guangzhou. Our Consul General in Guangzhou, Alastair Morgan, is second from right.
2013
Our 14th prize in 2013 was awarded (a) in Tianjin to Dr Gao Yongjun of the City CDC; and to Yang Jie (Gaga) of the leading gay care group Tianjin Shen Lao (Dark Blue) group; and (b) in Guiyang, Guizhou, to Zhang Yan (Pandora) of Zunyi, Li Meiying of the largest HIV and gay group in Guiyang, and Yuan Fei of the Guiyang CDC.
Tianjin. Our prize-winners are seated second and third from right. Novelist Tong Ge is seated second from left.
Guiyang
Pandora's Group in Zunyi, Guizhou
Revolutionary restaurant in Zunyi
2014
Our 15th prize in 2014 was awarded to Dr. Zhao Hongxin, Director of Infection Centre, Beijing Ditan Hospital.
British Deputy Ambassador Andrew Key is standing second from right in rear. At centre of front row is Shen Jie, Secretary General of the China Aids Association.
2015
Our 16th prize in 2015 was awarded in Harbin and Shenyang in China's north east: to Hui Hongtao of the gay group in Harbin, Heilongjiang Kantong working group, and to Wang Kaili and Yan Hongmei of the Heilongjiang CDC; and in Shenyang to Ma Tiecheng of the gay group, together with Lu Chenming of the Liaoning CDC and Gu Yuan and Song Wei of the Shenyang City CDC.
Prize-giving in Harbin
The Beijing Queer Chorus singing at our Shenyang prize-giving
Our prizewinning group in Harbin in May, with the lilac in bloom.
2016
The winner designate of our 2016 prize is Dr Li Ning, President of the Beijing You'an Hospital, standing at right in the photo. The Prime Minister, Li Keqiang, is at centre, visiting the Quiet Garden at the hospital. We founded the Quiet Garden jointly with the hospital in 2007, giving counselling to newly-infected gay patients.
2017
We gave our 2017 prize to Head Nurse Hu Minhua of the Nanchang No. 9 Hospital. We conducted a seminar on HIV nursing to coincide with the prizegiving, to which we invited previous prizewinning nurses from around China to lecture. In this photo, Martin has his arm around Nurse Hu Minhua,
2018
We gave our 19th annual Barry and Martin's Prize in Kunming in September to Dr Duan Yue Xuan, Director of the Surgical Department of the Yunnan Aids Care Centre. This hospital has done exemplary work in surgical operations on HIV Positive patients.
2019
We gave our 20th annual prize this year in Changchun, with 3 winners, all recognised for their excellence in caring for HIV/AIDS patients. They are (1) Mr. Meng Xiang, Director of Changchun Northland Spring Health Consulting Service Center (2) Ms. Zhou Cuibo, Co-chief Superintendent Nurse, Care and Love Outpatient Service of Changchun Hospital for Infectious Disease (3) Ms. Li Xuejing, STD and HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Section Chief of Changchun Centre for Disease Control
2020
No prize was given in 2020 due to the disruption and devastation caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
2021
The Trustees of Barry & Martin’s Trust, London, are pleased to announce the awards of Barry & Martin’s Prizes 2021. The winners are Mr. Wang Guanghui from Qingdao, China, and Ms. Yang Yongjuan from Xining, China. Details of the two award recipients are below. The award ceremony will be held in Qingdao, Shandong, China, in December 2021. The ceremony will also mark the 25th anniversary of the Trust’s work in China, in the field of HIV/Aids prevention and care.
Mr. Wang Guanghui is the director of the Qingdao Qingtong Voluntary Service Centre for HIV Prevention (Qingtong). He has made tremendous efforts to integrate the role of social organizations in promoting related functional departments in HIV prevention. As a former clinician, he founded Qingtong in 2013 with his funds after noticing the lack of community services for his fellow HIV sufferers. In 8 years of hard work, he and his team have overcome many difficulties and provided many forms of HIV intervention and care services for those infected and affected by HIV in grassroots communities in Qingdao and Shandong province. He has been active in creating a good working environment for HIV prevention and treatment at the grassroots level, mobilizing support staff at all levels of leadership. His work has been fully recognized by community members and national, provincial and municipal CDC departments.
Ms. Yang Yongjuan is a psychological counsellor at the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Chengzhong District, Xining, Qinghai, China. She has made outstanding contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention and the management and psychological support of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. During her more than ten years of grassroots HIV prevention and control work in Xining and Qinghai Province, she has met many people living with HIV and many more community members affected by HIV in Northwest China. She has actively reached out to these people and counselled them to help them build their confidence to face the disease positively despite stigma and discrimination; she has actively supported local HIV community organizations to carry out grassroots HIV prevention and control at the grassroots level by creating conditions for the growth and development of these organizations and advising them on their work. Her solid work has been well received by the community members she serves.
2022 and 2023
No prize was given during these years due to the continuing disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2024
The 2024 Barry and Martin’s Trust Prize 2024 is awarded to Dr Fujie Zhang.
Dr Fujie Zhang, Director of the Clinical AIDS Research Centre at Capital Medical University and recipient of the 2024 Barry and Martin’s Trust Prize
Dr Fujie Zhang is Director of the Clinical AIDS Research Centre at Capital Medical University and was previously Director of the Clinical and Research Centre for Infectious Diseases at Beijing Ditan Hospital.
He has been active in clinical research, teaching and scientific research of infectious diseases for over 30 years. Under his leadership, the first national free HIV treatment programme in China was launched, which significantly reduced the mortality rate and improved the quality of life of HIV-infected people in China. In 2003, he founded the National Training Network for AIDS Clinics and Laboratories, which has trained hundreds of medical staff from 31 provinces and produced many professionals for the country.
Dr Zhang has developed guidelines, technical standards and expert consensus, including the National Manual of Free AIDS Antiviral Drugs and the Chinese AIDS Diagnosis and Treatment Guide. He has published more than 200 high-quality peer-reviewed research articles on improving the treatment and care of HIV-infected people in developing countries, co-infection with HIV and viral hepatitis, and prevention of HIV transmission. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Lancet HIV, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (JAIDS), Current HIV/AIDS, and AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
He has received many honours in medical technology and was named among the scientific, technical and management talents with outstanding contributions in Beijing. Hospitals and national, provincial and municipal CDC departments have fully recognized his work.