Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court announced Thursday that the nine-year-old AIDS boy has lost the lawsuit against Peking University school of stomatology and Red Cross blood center, Beijing News reported Friday.

The court has turned down the victim's claim for a 2.34-million-yuan compensation (about US$288,532) because there are no solid proof that the hospital and the blood center was responsible for the case.

The boy named Xiao Jian suffered from the congenital cleft palate before he had a surgery at the stomatology hospital in August 2002. He received blood transfusions when he was in hospital.

In September 2003, he was diagnosed to have terminal AIDS, While his parents were not HIV carriers, according to a medical report.

The boy's parents sued the hospital for using HIV contaminated blood from the center and caused his son's illness.

In an earlier trial, the boy lost the lawsuit because the center refused to submit the blood donator's personal file in a bid to protect his privacy.

(Xinhua News Agency December 31, 2005)