BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key health news from the past week:
-- China issues guideline to implement Healthy China initiative
The State Council, China's cabinet, has issued a new guideline to implement the country's Healthy China initiative and promote people's health.
With a focus on disease prevention and health promotion, the guideline proposed 15 special campaigns to "intervene in health influencing factors, protect full-life-cycle health and prevent and control major diseases."
-- China effectively addresses illness-caused poverty
About 6.7 million families previously in poverty due to high medical bills have been lifted above the poverty line thanks to government financial aid.
In the first half of 2019, almost 90 percent of medical bills of needy patients were covered by the government and the number of serious illnesses covered by the government medical aid program increased to 25, in some places even to 30 types.
-- China to launch clinical trial of long-lasting HIV vaccine
Chinese scientists will begin the second-phase clinical trial of an HIV vaccine on 160 volunteers.
The candidate vaccine, DNA-rTV, relies on replication of the DNA of HIV to stimulate effective immunization. It is the first such HIV vaccine to begin a second-phase clinical trial. Enditem
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