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.
Working in Mường Nhé district of the northern province of Dien Bien, a young doctor discovered his passion for taking care of and raising public awareness of public healthcare in the locality.
A total of 1,200 people who are at high risk of contracting HIV have been provided with Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), which can reduce the risk of infecting HIV if taken consistently.
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.
People who want to know their HIV status can now test themselves discreetly thanks to the HIV self-testing service that was launched in Vietnam for the first time on August 26.
The northern mountainous province of Son La targets to keep the rate of HIV/AIDS infections in the community below 0.65 percent from 2016-2017, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Cambodia has lately spent about 7 million USD per year on medication for
those living with HIV/AIDS, Mean Chivon, Director of National Center
for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (NCHADS),
told media.
The Ministry of Health launched Vietnam’s efforts to end the AIDS
epidemic by 2030 in response to UNAIDS’s 90-90-90 goals at a ceremony in
Hanoi on October 25.
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung asked for the UN’s further
support to help Vietnam eliminate AIDS pandemic by 2030 while receiving
Michel Sidibé, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and
Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), in
Hanoi on October 25.
A national steering committee on the prevention and control of harmful
alcohol consumption is set to be formed as part of the government’s
efforts to minimise alcohol abuse in the country.
UNAIDS Vietnam called on Vietnam to invest wisely in its HIV response to
ensure that it would achieve national and global targets on the
occasion of the 25th World AIDS Day, which took place on December 1.
A delegation of Vietnamese health officials has visited Thailand to
learn the country’s experience in seeking financial resources and
supplies of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV/AIDS treatment.
Around 750,000 people, including drug users, homosexuals and sex workers
have received HIV prevention treatment under the 44-million USD
Community Reach Programme.
Senior officials from UNAIDS and WHO
have commended Vietnam for its progress in combating HIV/AIDS at a joint
press briefing for World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), in Hanoi on November 30.
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