Experts in HIV/AIDS hope to widen the coverage of healthcare and extend life expectancy, as Shan Juan reports.

China's top health authorities are mulling fine-tuning the guidelines for HIV tests next year to ensure that people with the disease can begin antiretroviral treatment as early as possible, and attain life expectancies similar to those of healthy people, the country's leading HIV/AIDS specialist has said.

Wu Zunyou, head of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, made the remarks on Saturday at a media event ahead of World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec 1.