Bangkok’s City Hall is working in collaboration with The
Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre and the Department of Disease Control to
transform Thailand
into an AIDS-free country by 2016.
Health Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has asked provinces and cities
nationwide to strengthen HIV/AIDS prevention measures, especially
improving the capacity of HIV/AIDS prevention centres.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked cities and localities to
add activities to fight AIDS, drugs and prostitution into their annual
social economic development programmes.
While some doctors at public hospitals have been forced to seek other
jobs due to low salaries, others have found a way to earn hundreds of
millions of dong per month in a situation that has some health experts
worried.
Trinh Thi Le Tram, director of the Hanoi-based Centre for the Law,
Healthcare and HIV/AIDS policies, says she still remembers the case of a
kindergarten teacher who was sacked from her teaching post after she
was infected with HIV from her husband.
More than 6,000 Vietnamese caught HIV in the first six months this
year, a fall of more than 1,200 compared with the same period last year,
according to the Ministry of Health.
The Hanoi-based Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases has
recently inaugurated a reference centre for laboratory HIV testing with
the aim of bettering the treatment for the people living with HIV/AIDS.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has changed significantly in gender and age
groups, deputy head of Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control Chu
Quoc An said on July 15 at an online meeting to review the fight against
the disease in the first six months of the year.
Vietnam to spend 97.4 billion VND
on a national action plan for children affected by HIV/AIDS from now
to 2010 to ensure that most of them will have their needs
met by 2020.
Music, dances, stories, games and
dramas on HIV/AIDS were top in an international dancing programme held
in central Da Nang city on September 12 in a bid to raise public
awareness on the deadly disease.
Authorities rang the alarm bell to
caution males and people in the 30-39 age group about their high rates
of HIV infections in the first half of the year.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong has recently paid a visit to France to learn from their policies and experiences on how to effectively prevent the spreads of HIV/AIDS.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
