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Xi Jinping visits HIV/AIDS center

Vice-President Xi Jinping on Nov 30 visited a group of people living with HIV or AIDS in Beijing, urging society to abandon discrimination against such groups and "to light up their lives with love", Xinhua News Agency reported.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, talked to HIV carriers, doctors and volunteers fighting the spread of AIDS at a community clinic in South Beijing on the eve of World AIDS Day."HIV is not terrible in itself but what is really dreadful is the ignorance about HIV and the prejudice against AIDS patients," said Xi, adding that all HIV carriers and AIDS patients are our brothers and sisters and all society should light up their lives with love.

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