On Wednesday, millions sat for China's notoriously grueling two-day college entrance exam, known as the gaokao.
While everyone files into testing facilities for the exam, 16 kids in northern China's Shanxi province will sit the test in isolation — because they're HIV-positive.
The students go to the Linfen Red Ribbon School, the only institution of its kind in China. Linfen was set up over a decade ago specifically to provide education to HIV-positive kids.
The school has always maintained that it serves as a safe-haven for the HIV-positive community, away from society's discrimination and rejection — often even from even their families. Read more...
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