Homemade Medicine Ready for AIDS 'Cocktail Therapy'

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Homemade Medicine Ready for AIDS 'Cocktail Therapy'

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Three new kinds s of anti-AIDS drugs, constituting one set of the AIDS cocktail treatment, were approved to be brought into the market in Shanghai recently, indicating China had the initial capability to produce AIDS treatment drugs of its own.

The move for these drugs to be put into the market is expected to cut down treatment costs for the Chinese AIDS patients by a big margin. As similarly effective as the imported ones, these drugs are yet priced at one tenth of the imported, thanks to the pure adoption of domestic-made components.

Shanghai Desano Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., the developer of these drugs, plans to produce 20,000 preparations of anti-HIV virus next year.

Apart from the three that were to be brought into the market as approved, a fourth kind of pharmaceutical has also passed technical examination and appraisal by the State Drug Administration. These four kinds of drugs may form two sets of prescription for the "cocktail therapy".

According to the latest statistics conducted by the Ministry of health, China's HIV infected people have amounted to 1,000,000 in number. In the past, when China lacked the ability in producing the anti-AIDS pharmaceuticals, drugs for clinical healing relied totally on the imported, thus an AIDS patient had to pay around 30,000-50,000 yuan annually for it and only a few were affordable to receive pharmaceutical treatment. However, when these new drugs are used, costs in medicine for an AIDS patient will lower to 3000-5000 yuan each year.

By PD Online Staff Zhu Lizhen

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