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A newspaper publishes protected health information without permission:

The girl surnamed Gao from the central province of Henan lost her parents after they contracted AIDS by selling blood.

In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Henan farmers contracted HIV from commercial blood stations that often combined the blood of sellers into common vats, separated out the valuable plasma, and then transfused the remaining corpuscles back into sellers, saving money but quickly spreading AIDS.

In a report marking World AIDS Day, the newspaper told of the abuses Gao suffered after her parents’ deaths and printed a photo of her.

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