Taipei Overseas Peace Service, a Taiwan-based NGO mainly working on development in Indochina, cooperated with UNICEF (UN Children's Fund) on an education project in 1998. The collaboration lasted just one year, due to objections from China.
Last Sunday in Kyoto, Japan, the WHO declared the west Pacific region polio-free but left Taiwan off a list of 37 polio-free countries, despite the fact that polio eradication was achieved in Taiwan in 1985. Taiwan was counted by the WHO as a part of China.
Furthermore, Taiwan's donation of US$10 million to the WHO for its worldwide polio eradication campaign was not given recognition on the WHO's donor list because the sponsorship was done through Rotary International. The WHO declined to accept Taiwan's donation in the name of Taiwan.
It is the same story with Taiwan's sponsorship of the AIDS project in Chad. Care bridges Taiwan's aid to the country.
"It's medical aid and irrelevant to politics," said some medical professionals, "We hope China won't object to the sponsorship. We simply hope to help solve the AIDS problem and relieve people's suffering."
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