 Some Weiquan lawyers have advocated for the rights of HIV / AIDS victims who contracted the virus as a result of state @-@ sponsored blood drives . In the 1990s , government officials in central China , and especially in Henan , encouraged rural citizens to sell blood plasma in order to supplement their incomes . Gross mismanagement of the process resulted in hundreds of thousands of individuals being infected with HIV . According to activists , victims have not been compensated , and no government officials were held accountable . Authorities continue to suppress information about the epidemic , which is particularly sensitive in light of the involvement of Li Changchun , the Communist Party Propaganda head and formerly Party chief in Henan . 
