A thousand AIDS and HIV patients in southwest China's Yunnan
Province will receive free traditional Chinese medicines this
year, provincial AIDS control officials said on February
6.??
This is part of the province's pilot project using traditional
Chinese medicine therapy in AIDS control.
A neighbor of the Golden Triangle, one of the main drug source
areas in the world, Yunnan has reported more than 10,000 HIV
carriers and AIDS suffers, second in the country to Henan
Province.?????
The Chinese government estimates that China has about 840,000
HIV carriers.
Many believe traditional Chinese medicine, which is cheap and
without major side effects, helps improve HIV carriers' immune
systems.
(Xinhua News Agency February 12, 2005)