The Blood Of Yingzhou District Case Analysis
The blood of Yingzhou District (2006) is a 40 - minute documentary which reveals the prevalence of AIDS in Yingzhou district, located in Anhui Province. Yingzhou District is a rural and impoverished village. People living there have a low income. The situation prompts a substantial portion of villagers insist of selling blood so as to earn a living, which is the fundamental cause of AIDS in the area. In the documentary, the reality of an AIDS prevalent community is brought to light. It is a society full of misconception, fearsome and discrimination.
The documentary mainly addresses two issues, the causes of AIDS and stigmatization of orphans who suffered from AIDS by depicting the daily life of them. The documentary begins by mentioning an …show more content…
It may seem absurd for some Hong Kong people that blood is a commodity which is tradable. Nonetheless, a number of villagers in Yingzhou sell their blood at RMB 50 at black market just for maintaining their basic needs. The sanitation of these blood selling points is often called into question. More terrifying, blood from multiple sellers would be mixed and the remaining blood cells would be re-injected to their bodies. This is the cause of rapid AIDS dissemination. “If one person has AIDS, 50 people will get it,” said Village Deputy.
Though blood selling is a trivial matter in Yingzhou, it is sarcastic that the villagers hardly show mercy to people suffer from AIDS. In the documentary, the neighbors of Gao Jun are not willing to have any kinds of bodily contacts with him because they are afraid of AIDS infection. Even Gao Jun’s relatives are reluctant to adopt him as his uncle anticipates he would not be able to get married if he do so. At the same time, the aunt of Nan Nan conceals the disease to her husband. She fears her marriage would be terminated if husband discovers the …show more content…
Instead, it is an affair compounded by multiple factors. On policy, the uneven economic development in modern China causes the coastal cities developed speedily, whilst rural areas remain indigent. Hence, the villagers remain poor. Despite the fact that the villagers all realize the possibility of AIDS infection during blood transfusion, they still dare to do so just for making a living.
In addition, inadequate socio-economic development should also be accounted for the stigmatization of AIDS. Villagers and children are generally undereducated. The movie reveals that some of them know little about the transmission means of AIDS or even do not know the name of AIDS. They also consider normal bodily contact could result in AIDS. When these misconceptions disseminate among the village and nobody corrects them, villagers would consider AIDS as a plague. They would try to isolate AIDS patients to prevent infection. The above processes eventually add up to
The documentary mainly addresses two issues, the causes of AIDS and stigmatization of orphans who suffered from AIDS by depicting the daily life of them. The documentary begins by mentioning an …show more content…
It may seem absurd for some Hong Kong people that blood is a commodity which is tradable. Nonetheless, a number of villagers in Yingzhou sell their blood at RMB 50 at black market just for maintaining their basic needs. The sanitation of these blood selling points is often called into question. More terrifying, blood from multiple sellers would be mixed and the remaining blood cells would be re-injected to their bodies. This is the cause of rapid AIDS dissemination. “If one person has AIDS, 50 people will get it,” said Village Deputy.
Though blood selling is a trivial matter in Yingzhou, it is sarcastic that the villagers hardly show mercy to people suffer from AIDS. In the documentary, the neighbors of Gao Jun are not willing to have any kinds of bodily contacts with him because they are afraid of AIDS infection. Even Gao Jun’s relatives are reluctant to adopt him as his uncle anticipates he would not be able to get married if he do so. At the same time, the aunt of Nan Nan conceals the disease to her husband. She fears her marriage would be terminated if husband discovers the …show more content…
Instead, it is an affair compounded by multiple factors. On policy, the uneven economic development in modern China causes the coastal cities developed speedily, whilst rural areas remain indigent. Hence, the villagers remain poor. Despite the fact that the villagers all realize the possibility of AIDS infection during blood transfusion, they still dare to do so just for making a living.
In addition, inadequate socio-economic development should also be accounted for the stigmatization of AIDS. Villagers and children are generally undereducated. The movie reveals that some of them know little about the transmission means of AIDS or even do not know the name of AIDS. They also consider normal bodily contact could result in AIDS. When these misconceptions disseminate among the village and nobody corrects them, villagers would consider AIDS as a plague. They would try to isolate AIDS patients to prevent infection. The above processes eventually add up to