China is to offer free herbal treatment to some 30,000 AIDS
patients in 15 provinces. It will spend US$3.5 million on the
campaign in five heavily AIDS-stricken provinces.?
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A batch of 2,000 patients in Hebei,
Henan,
Anhui,
Hubei
and Guangdong
provinces will be the first to receive the treatment.
China will spend 29 million yuan, or US$3.5 million, over three
years on the campaign in these five provinces.
A training course of herbal medicine treatment is also held in
Henan Province, which is believed to be the province most severely
hit by AIDS.
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(CRI.com August 23, 2004)