Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has instructed relevant ministries and agencies to improve the efficiency of a programme to treat drug addiction by methadone therapy.
Health experts debated measures to effect HIV/AIDS prevention, stressing the need to expand preventive activities, Methadone therapy, anti-retroviral treatment and open bidding for drug supplies.
Authorities of HCM City have set a target of curbing the rate of new HIV cases at 0.03 percent in the community by 2020, and controlling the rate of people living with HIV at 0.6 percent in 2016-2020.
Methadone therapy for drug addicts has proved effective in the northern
province of Vinh Phuc, bringing health benefits and curbing HIV
infections and drug addiction relapses.