With the recent release of the city government’s comments on strengthening AIDS prevention and control work, it was clarified that people with HIV/AIDS in the city can receive fully covered care under the low-income insurance program. This further strengthens the city’s AIDS prevention and control work efforts.

The “Comments” require that each district and country place anti-AIDS medicines [ed. ARVS] on basic health insurance drug list for city and township employees and for the new rural cooperative health plan, as well as including them in the township level medical relief plan. At the same time, it clarified that for rural residents and urban residents in economic hardship, free ARV treatment will be available, as well as free or reduced cost medicines and treatment for common opportunistic infections for those in economic hardship.

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