National action month for anti-HIV/AIDS launched
A national action month for HIV/AIDS prevention and control was launched in
northern Bac Ninh province on Nov. 8.
A national action month for HIV/AIDS prevention and control was launched in
northern Bac Ninh province on Nov. 8.
Addressing the launching ceremony, Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan affirmed that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is on the increase and has not been put under control in Vietnam .
Vietnam will have almost 300,000 HIV carriers by 2010 and the nation will focus on how to help all needy people regardless of sex, social position and religion have access to HIV/AIDS treatment, care and preventive services, she added.
To keep its commitment and determine to preventing AIDS, Vice President Doan asked leaders of all branches and mass organisations from central to local levels, social organisations and all walks of life to raise their awareness and behaviours and increase assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS and oppose discrimination against HIV/AIDS victims.
For his part, Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu said that the expansion and the increase of the quality of the HIV/AIDS treatment, assistance, care and preventive measures have facilitated people access the service.
However, people’s knowledge on the pandemic and the discrimination against HIV sufferers and the service network in remote areas remain limited, he noted. “This is the barrier that we need to overcome to achieve the target to access universalisation in 2010,” he said./.
Addressing the launching ceremony, Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan affirmed that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is on the increase and has not been put under control in Vietnam .
Vietnam will have almost 300,000 HIV carriers by 2010 and the nation will focus on how to help all needy people regardless of sex, social position and religion have access to HIV/AIDS treatment, care and preventive services, she added.
To keep its commitment and determine to preventing AIDS, Vice President Doan asked leaders of all branches and mass organisations from central to local levels, social organisations and all walks of life to raise their awareness and behaviours and increase assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS and oppose discrimination against HIV/AIDS victims.
For his part, Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu said that the expansion and the increase of the quality of the HIV/AIDS treatment, assistance, care and preventive measures have facilitated people access the service.
However, people’s knowledge on the pandemic and the discrimination against HIV sufferers and the service network in remote areas remain limited, he noted. “This is the barrier that we need to overcome to achieve the target to access universalisation in 2010,” he said./.
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