China Treats HIV/AIDS Foreigners With ARVs, But Funds Limited
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
China is expanding its policy of free treatments for foreign HIV/AIDS patients, reaching 8,366 by the end of August, 200 of them receiving free antiviral therapy.
China is expanding its policy of free treatments for foreign HIV/AIDS patients, reaching 8,366 by the end of August, 200 of them receiving free antiviral therapy. The head of China's National Center for AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control and Prevention said the need is dictated by increasing international exchanges and longer stays by participants, some infected. But he said China lacks "clear policies" concerning the issue, emphasizing the nation's own citizens need to be treated first at a time of limited funding. (Click here for more
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"Free AIDS Treatment For More Foreigners" - China Daily (10/8/2012)