Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong has called for organisations from the central to grassroots levels and all the people, especially women, to actively take part in a campaign to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.

He also urged ministries and agencies, especially the provincial People’s Committees, to direct and implement the campaign, launched in Hanoi on Aug. 28, and make it a yearly activity.

The health ministry, in particular, has to increase the quality of services on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission for all who need it, he added.

The deputy PM, who is also head of the National Committee on HIV/AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control, called international organisations, non-governmental and governmental organisations together with the Vietnamese government for stronger commitments in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to help Vietnam fulfil the UN Millennium Goal of halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.

A successful effort will also ensure that 100 percent of HIV positive pregnant women have access to services on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission./.