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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/chinese-aids-campaigner-jailed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Chinese Aids activist Tian Xi has been jailed for damaging hospital equipment (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-chinese-aids-campaigner-jailed.jpg" alt="Chinese Aids activist Tian Xi has been jailed for damaging hospital equipment (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A Chinese Aids activist has been sentenced to a year in prison for smashing equipment at the hospital where he was infected, his lawyer said.</p>
<p>Tian Xi plans to appeal against the punishment, handed down a day earlier in Xincai County People&#8217;s Court of central China&#8217;s Henan province after he was convicted of intentionally damaging property, lawyer Liang Xiaojun said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tian told the court it did not consider the links between the cause and effect, and only punished him and not the hospital,&#8221; Mr Liang said.</p>
<p>Police took Tian into custody in August after a run-in with an administrator at the hospital, where he had been given a tainted blood transfusion as a boy.</p>
<p>Tian lost his temper and smashed office equipment after the official said there was nothing he could do about Tian&#8217;s case and walked out of their meeting, Tian&#8217;s father has said.</p>
<p>The 24-year-old has petitioned for compensation for years and has been outspoken in his advocacy for others who have contracted HIV, the virus that causes Aids, through tainted blood supplies.</p>
<p>After ignoring or demonising people with Aids for much of the 1980s and 1990s, China&#8217;s government has taken a more compassionate line on the disease and combating its spread in recent years.</p>
<p>But people with Aids still face difficulties in getting treatment and compensation, and authorities remain deeply suspicious of independent activists.</p>
<p>Mr Liang said Tian was physically weak at his court appearance and was still recovering from a serious cold. Tian is being held an unheated cell at a County Detention Centre along with a half-dozen other inmates with HIV or Aids, the lawyer said.</p>
<p>Infected inmates are more common in Henan due to unregulated blood-buying schemes there in the mid-90s that contaminated blood supplies.</p>
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