Classes offered to students with HIV

A school for HIV-positive children in Linfen, Shanxi province, will provide senior high school education after arranging for students to take the entrance exams for the first time.

Guo Xiaoping, head of the Red Ribbon School and president of the Linfen No 3 People's Hospital, which specializes in treating contagious diseases, said 16 students in the school have taken the senior high school entrance examination.

Teachers from the Linfen No 3 Middle School will start teaching the students senior high school courses at Red Ribbon after Sept 1, he said.