Chinese ex-prisoner sues medical centre after he was misdiagnosed as HIV-positive

A man is suing a medical centre in northern China for damages after he was wrongly diagnosed as HIV-positive, according to a newspaper report.

Liu Jianguo, 57 was told he had the virus by the city’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention while he was serving a prison sentence in Sanmenxia in Henan province 11 years ago, the Beijing Times reported.

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He was later moved to share a jail cell with another HIV-positive prisoner and began to take Aids drugs in 2011, according to the article.

But a year later tests performed by the same agency at another city in Henan, Zhumadian, said he did not have the virus.

Liu told the newspaper the wrong diagnosis had a serious impact on his life and also on his family.

He was quoted as saying that they faced discriminations in his village after the positive test result.