Feelings about Western appraoaches to HIV/AIDS.

The Western approach to HIV/AIDS exists of treatments that are based on understanding the viral life cycle. Reverse transcriptase inhibitors have been succesfull in preventing the spread of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn; if a pregnant woman is treated with AZT and delivers her child by caesarian, the chance of the baby being infected can be reduced to one percent.
Unfortunately it is difficult for HIV infected people to adhere too their strict schedule of medicines, due to their side effects; protease inhibitors, another major class of drugs that act later in the lifecycle of the virus, can have severe side effects like; nausea, diarrhea. Other nucleose reverse transcriptase inhibitors can cause red or white bloodcells to drop.

I'm wondering if it is safe to use TCM herbal medicinals in conjunction with these medicines, since TCM herbals can tonify the blood which may offset the drop in red or white bloodcells.

Painfull nerve damage and inflammation of the pancreas can also result. These sound like very serious side effects; I'm wondering if TCM if administered early can prevent or treat these side effects.
I think it is pretty amazing how much scientists have come to learn about the HIV virus, but I think further research is needed for treatment, and that includes research of herbal medicines, and not just the extraction of the active ingredients.

I feel that more effort should lie in prevention of the spread of HIV; by education on how the virus is spread, especially amongs high risk groups.I also feel that it is a good thing to distribute condoms to at risk populations/and make HIV medications more affordable to populations that need them.
I'm not suere how I feel about the development of a vaccine that protect against infection with HIV; I feel it is a very dangerous endevour. If a vaccine that is safe is made, I believe it should be made available to at risk populations first.