title: Unified-planning, graded-administration, and centralized-controlling: a management modality for treating acquired immune deficiency syndrome with Chinese medicine in Henan Province of China.
abstract: Henan Province in China has a major epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Chinese medicine (CM) has been used throughout the last decade, and a management modality was developed, which can be described by unified-planning, graded-administration, and centralized-controlling (UGC). The UGC modality has one primary concept (patient-centered medicine from CM theory), four basic foundations (classifying administrative region, characteristics of CM on disease treatment, health resource conditions, and distribution of patients living with HIV), six important relationships (the "three uniformities and three combinations," and the six relationships therein guide the treatment of AIDS with CM), and four key sections (management, operation, records, and evaluation). In this article, the authors introduce the UGC modality, which could be beneficial to developing countries or resource-limited areas for the management of chronic infectious disease.
authors: Department of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Treatment and Research Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, 450000, China.
authors: Li-Ran
authors: LR
authors: Xu
authors: Hui-jun
authors: HJ
authors: Guo
authors: Zhi-bin
authors: ZB
authors: Liu
authors: Qiang
authors: Q
authors: Li
authors: Ji-ping
authors: JP
authors: Yang
authors: Ying
authors: Y
authors: He
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D002681:China; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy; D015497:HIV-1; D006284:Health Plan Implementation / Q000458:organization & administration; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006288:Health Planning Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000592:standards