18 December 2014 Last updated at 06:35 ET
Students show their hands painted to look like red ribbons during a world AIDS day event at a school in Hanshan, central China’s Anhui province on 30 November.
Discrimination against those with HIV or Aids is said to be common in China
Villagers in China’s Sichuan province have petitioned authorities to “isolate” an HIV positive eight-year-old boy, state media report.
Kun Kun lives with his grandparents, who struggle to care for him. Local people said he had been running wild and had begun starting fires.
A Beijing Youth Daily feature on the boy has attracted tens of thousands of comments online.
Officials are reportedly planning to “educate” the villagers.
Discrimination against those with Aids is said to be common in China.
The newspaper said that the boy, who has been given the pseudonym Kun Kun, had contracted the virus from his mother when she was pregnant with him, but was only diagnosed when he was about five years old.
His mother and stepfather work in other provinces, so he lives near the town of Xichong with his non-blood-related grandparents, who had adopted his stepfather as a child.
Kun Kun does not go to school, said the paper, but spends his days playing in the woods. He has also set his own home on fire, as well as grass piles and the village oil well, it said.
