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Free Anti-AIDS Drugs
[Sichuan Newsweb – Chengdu Business News 14 April 2004]
According
to Xinhua, the recently released Ministry of Health and Minstry of
Finance trial regulation “Methods for Reduced Fee and Free Medicines
for Treating AIDS and Common Opportunistic Infections”, those with
HIV/AIDS who have financial hardships will receive free anti-retroviral
treatment. The list of free anti-retroviral medicines is as follows:
Zidovudine (AZT); Stavudine(D4T); Didanosine (ddI); Lamivudine(3TC);
Nevirapine(NVP); and Indinavir (IDV).
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