According to China Tells Its Public of Enormity of AIDS Toll By JIM YARDLEY, the Chinese believe their media:

"I've never heard of it," he said. "I'm from Henan Province. We don't have it in Henan." Told that Henan is an epicenter of AIDS, with huge numbers of cases and deaths, Mr. Zhao shook his head. "There is nothing like that," he said. "It would have been on television if people had died of AIDS."