摘要
Xie Jun (pseudonym), a patient with ad- vanced lung cancer and in need of an , urgent operation, was rejected by a hos-pital after disclosin~ just before the operation, that he has HIV. Xie published his account on the micro- blogging site Weibo on November 18, dght aEer he was turned away for the operation. Just one year earlier, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) named the hospital that rejected Xie---Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in Changsha, central China's Hunan Provincc as a model hospital that had never rejected a patient diagnosed with AIDS.