Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS starts in Guangxi

People's Daily
July 15, 2005

The traditional Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS project, jointly developed by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Department of Health of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was officially launched in a hospital designated for AIDS treatment in Liuzhou recently.

It is already confirmed that 10 HIV carriers and AIDS patients have begun taking traditional Chinese medicines. About 100 HIV carriers and AIDS patients will benefit from the project in the following year.

Nanning and Baise started the project at the same time. The patients who voluntarily accept the traditional Chinese treatment will get these medicines for free.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS is a key scientific researching program of China. Through the traditional Chinese treatment that takes care of both inside and outside, with both strength and gentleness, the researchers hope to break through the side-effects that the Western medicines bring to the patients, to lower the expensive cost of imported medicines and to make treatments available for more HIV carriers and AIDS patients.

By People's Daily Online