HIV/AIDS prevention in Mekong Subregion enhanced
To be implemented in
2013-2017, the project targets drug users, sex workers, migrants, ethnic
minority people, poor locals and healthcare workers in 80 districts in
15 border provinces.
Apart from improving management
capacity for HIV/AIDS prevention programmes at national, provincial and
district levels, it will look to enable grassroots healthcare systems to
expand HIV preventive services.
It will also contribute to
fostering regional cooperation in preventing HIV transmission between
border-sharing countries.
Nguyen Thanh Long, Deputy Minister
of Public Health said the project will help realise the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) on s topping and restricting gradually spread
of HIV/AIDS through providing high quality services for vulnerable
groups in the benefited localities.
Participants, who hailed
from 15 border provinces, talked about how to organise training
courses, coordinate cross-border HIV/AIDS infection prevention plans and
organise HIV/AIDS tests.
Vietnam has detected 213,413
HIV carriers who are still alive, of whom 63,373 have developed AIDS. As
many as 65,133 accumulative deaths have been reported so far.
In the first five months of this year, on average 29 new cases were found daily nationwide.-VNA