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Playing the AIDS Game in China

The AIDS epidemic in China is huge and of serious concern to a lot of people (the best work I’ve seen to date is the wonderful and heartbreaking To Live Is Better Than To Die, an underground documentary by Chen Weijun on a hushed-up tragedy in Henan), but the Ministry of Education is using computers and ‘games’ of the quiz variety to fine effect: Launched by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by the China AIDS Roadmap Tactical Support Project, the contest ran for three months last year, yet its effect continue – the site remains up and nearly 19 million people have logged on.