Nguyen Tuan Hung, Deputy Director-General of the State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has become a member of the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Fight.
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control Vu Duc Dam hosted a reception in Hanoi on November 29 for Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific Eamonn Murphy.
The 18th trilateral and bilateral ministerial meetings on drug prevention and control between Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV) took place in Hanoi on September 11.
A seminar was held in Hanoi on October 29 to discuss an awareness campaign on the dangers of drug abuse under the Drug Prevention and Control Programme till 2020.
Vietnam must step up efforts to ensure 90 percent of HIV-infected people will receive sustained antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2020, in line with the international UN target, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a meeting of National Committee for AIDS, Prostitution and Drug Prevention on December 8.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged ministries and agencies to enhance measures to prevent and controlHIV/AIDS, drugs and prostitution from now to the end of the year.
The nationwide prostitution prevention programme for 2016-2020 was launched at a conference held by the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control.
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