Plans to improve care for prisoners with AIDS

Prisoners diagnosed with HIV/AIDS should be held in separate wards and receive comprehensive care, a new government draft plan says.

The ministries of Public Security, Health and Justice areworking on the plan intended to offer better care to HIV/AIDS sufferers who are suspected or found guilty of crime, said Hao Yang, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control of the Ministry of Health.

During an interview with China Daily, Hao said the plan would standardize what had been done in the past, such as free medical care for HIV/AIDS sufferers in prisons.