Deputy PM receives UNAIDS Country Director
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam congratulated UNAIDS Country Director Marie-Odile Emond on successfully fulfilling her
tenure in Vietnam during a reception in Hanoi on September 3.
Dam said during her tenure, UNAIDS Country Director Emond was awarded with the insignia “For People’s Health”
by the Health Ministry and a certificate of merit by the Department of HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Control in honour of her dedication to the cause of protecting
and caring for health of the Vietnamese people.
He wished that the UNAIDS and the
Country Director would continue supporting Vietnam in fulfilling goals in the
fight against HIV/AIDS in the future.
Emond, for her part, said the UNAIDS has coordinated
common efforts of the UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS to assist Vietnam in
accomplishing HIV/AIDS prevention and control targets.
She affirmed that in any position, she will continue
offering support to Vietnam in the effort.
Over the past years, the UNAIDS has
raised funding for Vietnam, assisted Vietnam in building laws and policies such
as the Law on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Law on
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, the national strategy on HIV/AIDS prevention
and control till 2030, among others.
It also offered technical
assistance to Vietnamese agencies to carry out new and effective policies and
measures, towards the goal of diagnosing 90 percent of all HIV positive people,
providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for 90 percent of those diagnosed and achieving
viral suppression for 90 percent of those treated./.