Since 2019, members of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) groups in Vietnam have harvested various achievements, including helping to promote access to healthcare services in HIV/AIDS prevention and control.
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), in collaboration with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Vietnam, held a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on August 28 to provide guidance on HIV/AIDS prevention and control for workers.
About 33% of new HIV infections in Vietnam occurred among key young populations, higher than the global average of 27% and the Asia Pacific average of 26%, according to the latest data from UNAIDS 2023 HIV Estimates.
Vietnam is promoting policy advocacy, collecting comments on research results from stakeholders, discussing orientations, and making recommendations on the use of new long-acting antiretroviral in HIV prevention and treatment.
Treatment of HIV patients at the health centre of Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem district has shown a relatively impressive result as all the patients have been under viral load monitoring, and the HIV viral suppression rate reaches 99.5%.
The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programme in Vietnam has maintained an impressive 99% viral suppression rate in its 11 focus provinces in the Northern Economic Zone and the Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Region.
Over the past years, Vietnam has carried out comprehensive interventions along with diverse and suitable HIV preventive measures for intravenous drug users.
With excellent achievements in scientific research, Dr Truong Thanh Tung has been selected as one of the 10 outstanding young faces of 2022 honoured by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee.
According to the Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Health, more than 240,000 people in Vietnam are currently living with HIV/AIDS.
More than 15,000 factory workers at high risk of HIV infection have access to HIV prevention and treatment services through an HIV prevention intervention model called SAFE-ZONE, according to the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC).
Up to 48% of people newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are in the 16-29 age range, and alarmingly high rate of infections among youngsters, according to Associate Professor Phan Thi Thu Huong, Director of the Anti-HIV/AIDS Department
Encouraging results have been recorded in the transition of financial resources for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Vietnam over the last 10 years, heard a conference in Hanoi on November 23.
More than 60,200 people living with HIV nationwide have been provided with Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) service over the last five years, helping to better control HIV infections in the community.
Over the past decade, the private sector has been playing an important role in intensifying the accessibility to products and services for HIV prevention and treatment at affordable prices for the community of the top risk groups.
Community-based organisations (CBOs) are boosting coverage of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services for key population groups to help achieve targets for HIV/AIDS epidemic control in Vietnam.
The community advisory board (CAB) initiative aims to support the quality improvement of HIV/AIDS prevention services in Vietnam and is proving to be a game changer for related response efforts in the current period.
A community one-stop-shop model called DOME was officially launched on September 8 in Ho Chi Minh City, piloting the first six shops with health services for HIV prevention and treatment.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health hopes the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will continue to assist Vietnam in the prevention of dangerous diseases such as influenza, COVID-19, zoonotic diseases and HIV/AIDS.
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