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  Wan Yan Hai
       
    Wan Yan Hai is an independent Public Health researcher and a gay right activist in China. He was founder and coordinator of the AIDS Hotline at China National Health Education Institute (1992-1993). After he was expelled from his post in 1994 for his advocacy for human rights and his support for health issues concerning homosexuals and sex workers, Dr. Wan established the Aizhi Action Project, a NGO focusing on promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention within Chinese society, protecting the rights of HIV/AIDS patients and supporting equal rights for gays and lesbians. Dr. Wan also played a key role in exposing the connection between blood transfusions and HIV/AIDS in Henan in 2001.

For the past 10 years, Dr. Wan has been focusing on HIV/AIDS related safer sex education, gay & lesbian rights, mental health, rights of people with HIV/AIDS, law and policy, and religious issues. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Feminist Research of the University of Southern California (1997-1998), a Fulbright New Century Scholar at the Center for Sex Study of California State University(2002-2003), and a Visiting Health Fellow at Yale China Association(2003-2004). Currently, he is Visiting Researcher at the Social Psychology Institute of China Renmin University and Director of Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education.

Dr. Wan has won several international awards for his ground breaking work. These include: Fulbright New Century Scholar Award(2002), 1st Annual Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights by Canadian AIDS Legal Network & Human Rights Watch(2002), Defenders’ Award by International League of Human Rights(2002), and Yale World Fellow Award(2003).

More Background Information from Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network: >>
 
       
       
       
    Selected Publications  
       
   
  • Some thoughts on HIV/AIDS education among gay community, China Health Education Journal 1992; 8
  • Develop the role of NGOs in HIV/AIDS control, China Health Education Journal 1992; 11
  • AIDS Helpline in the development, China Health Education Journal 1993; 3 (coauthor Chen Bingzhong)
  • NGOs and their role in HIV/AIDS control, China Social Work Journal 1994; 1
  • Comparison study of abstinence-only education and safer sex education,
    Beijing AIZHI Action Project, 2000 (coauthor Er Yan)
  • How to produce laws on HIV/AIDS? Beijing AIZHI Action Project, 2000
  • Health News and cover-up of Henan HIV/AIDS scandal, Beijing AIZHI Action Project, 2001
  • China gay going normal, Beijing AIZHI Action Project, 2001
  • Legal issues of people with HIV/AIDS, Beijing AIZHI Action Project, 2002
 
       
       
       
       
    Selected Speeches  
       
   
  • Gay rights in China, Columbia University, March 1997
  • Gay rights and gay movements in China, University of Southern California, June 1997
  • Gay rights in China, Asia Study Annual Conference, March 1998
  • Challenging HIV/AIDS radio talk series, Beijing News Radio, September-December 1998
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Columbia University, March 2002
  • Challenging HIV/AIDS in China, Nankai University China, May 2002
  • Challenging HIV/AIDS in China, Beijing University China, May 2002
  • HIV/AIDS in China, World Affair Council San Francisco, November 2002
  • HIV/AIDS in China, University of Chicago, November 2002
  • HIV/AIDS in China, American Foundation of AIDS Research & Columbia University, December 2002
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Harvard University, December 2002
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Yale University, December 2002
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Colby College, December 2002
  • HIV/AIDS & personal web sites in China, George Washington University, January 2003
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Foreign Relations Council Chicago, January 2003
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Asia Society San Francisco, February 2003
  • HIV/AIDS in China, University of California San Diego, February 2003
  • HIV/AIDS in China, University of Southern California, February 2003
  • HIV/AIDS & human rights in China, University of Geneva, March 2003
  • HIV/AIDS in China, Hamilton College, April 2003
 
       
 
 
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