Chinese medical researcher roots for new therapy against HIV/Aids

Professor Tian Shengxun

A university medical researcher, who is an expert in Chinese herbal medicine, has supported recent findings by scholars at the University of California, US, of the urgent need to seek new therapies in the fight against HIV infections because mechanisms that govern transcription and latency differ in gut and blood.

“It is time to assess and review the effectiveness of conventional medicine with a view to combining conventional and herbal therapies in the war against HIV/AIDS-the killer diseases, which has so far claimed 40 million lives since it was discovered 40 years ago,”  says Professor Tian Shengxun.

The professor, who is behind the discovery of a Chinese herbal medicine, Tian Immunity Booster (TIB), hailed Kenyan universities that are undertaking studies in herbal medicine such as Kenyatta University’s regional National Reference Research Centre for herbal medicine.