A Chinese volunteer receives the AIDS vaccine in the Disease Control and Prevention Center of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 12, 2005.

A group of eight volunteers chosen from Guangxi Medical University participated in the first human trials of a new AIDS vaccine that China had developed.

Each of the volunteers would receive compensations of at least 2,000 yuan (US$240).

A further 49 volunteers are needed to take the experiments.