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25 years on; foreigner becomes China's first death from AIDS
It is a story with its beginnings in Nanjing, and one that was to have worldwide ramifications as a disease first thought of as a foreign problem, that very quickly became tragically international and a huge concern in China.
It was 1985 and Oscar Messina, a 34-year old Argentinean traveling alone with a tour group on a 28 day round-the-world trip began to feel ill and decided to sit out the day's sightseeing in Nanjing.
Saul Gitlin is now EVP of Strategic Services for Kang & Lee Advertising but in 1985 was an international tour guide. He writes poignantly of his brief relationship with Oscar, and of his physical and emotional caring for a man too frightened to confess to having AIDS in what was then still a very communist China [more].
Source:- The Huffington Post