Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong delivered a speech atthe UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New Yorkon June 9 (Hanoi time), marking suggestions on how to strengthen theefficiency of HIV/AIDS prevention.
“Theinternational community must remain vigilant and ensure necessaryresources for national and international responses to HIV/AIDS,” hesaid.
HIV/AIDS is now the biggest challenge posed topoor and developing countries, therefore, the international communityshould pay special attention and support HIV/AIDS prevention efforts inthese countries, he added.
The Vietnameserepresentative emphasised the urgent need to implement comprehensiveprevention measures, including education, communication and awarenessimprovement, especially among young people.
HIV/AIDSpatients should gain access to better health care services, especiallyART and Methadone, he said, adding that conditions should be created forproducing low-cost ART and Methadone through technological transfer andaid.
“It is very important to implement earlydiagnosis and uninterrupted treatment measures for HIV/AIDS infectedpeople,” he stressed.
According to Deputy PM Trong,with Vietnam ’s great efforts, the number of HIV/AIDS patientsaccounts for only 0.26 percent of the population and the country hasalso seen initial results in controlling HIV/AIDS.
Over the past two years, the number of people who die of the disease has dropped from 6,000 to 2,500 per year, Trong said.
Vietnam has issued the Law on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Controland many other legal documents on this issue, encouraging and creatingfavourable conditions for the greater participation of people and socialorganisations in the fight against HIV virus, he added.
He stressed that the Vietnamese government and people highly valuedthe important assistance and effective cooperation of the UN, especiallythe Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), international funds andorganisations, for Vietnam ’s prevention and control efforts over thepast years.
“The Vietnamese government and peopleare strongly committed to realising national and internationalobjectives on accessing and popularising HIV/AIDS prevention,treatment and care measures as well as the UN’s latest initiatives on nonew HIV carriers, no discrimination and no death of HIV/AIDS,” theDeputy PM said.
He also expressed his hope thatVietnam will receive continued support and close and effectivecooperation from the UN’s bodies and member countries as well asinternational organisations in this effort.
Morethan 30 heads of State and government along with 3,000 representativesfrom international, non-governmental and social organisations,development partners and people living with HIV/AIDS throughout theworld attended the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting onHIV/AIDS, which opened in New York on June 8.
The meeting includes a plenum, five sessions of UN committees and 40sidelines events, which aim to review progresses and challenges in thefight against HIV/AIDS during the past 30 years as well as discussfuture global responses to this disease in the next five years.
In his opening remarks, UN General Assembly President Joseph Deissaffirmed that it’s decisive time for the fight against HIV/AIDS, addingthat over the past three decades, more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and at least 25 million of them have died and over16 million children have lost their parents due to the disease.
Therefore, the meeting offers an important opportunity for UN membersto reaffirm commitments to enhance joint actions for the fight againstHIV/AIDS, he said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonaffirmed that the HIV/AIDS fight is not only the one against disease butalso the struggle for human rights and gender equality.
The meeting is an appeal to all partners for tightening globalsolidarity furthermost, considering it the only way to boost the accessand popularisation of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment measures andcare for HIV/AIDS patients in 2015, he said.
MichelSidibe, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS), highlighted the international community’s common successes inHIV/AIDS prevention over the past 30 years, saying that the rate of newHIV infected people on the globe fell by 25 percent compared to that of10 years ago, the number of people who died of the disease decreased by20 percent over the past five years and 6.6 million people in low-incomeand middle-income countries were provided with HIV treatment.
However, there are still 34 million people in the world living withHIV, the highest level over the past three decades, and 9 million HIVcarriers in poor countries are waiting for treatment, he said, addingthat about 330,000 children in poor nations are born with HIV/AIDS everyyear./.
“Theinternational community must remain vigilant and ensure necessaryresources for national and international responses to HIV/AIDS,” hesaid.
HIV/AIDS is now the biggest challenge posed topoor and developing countries, therefore, the international communityshould pay special attention and support HIV/AIDS prevention efforts inthese countries, he added.
The Vietnameserepresentative emphasised the urgent need to implement comprehensiveprevention measures, including education, communication and awarenessimprovement, especially among young people.
HIV/AIDSpatients should gain access to better health care services, especiallyART and Methadone, he said, adding that conditions should be created forproducing low-cost ART and Methadone through technological transfer andaid.
“It is very important to implement earlydiagnosis and uninterrupted treatment measures for HIV/AIDS infectedpeople,” he stressed.
According to Deputy PM Trong,with Vietnam ’s great efforts, the number of HIV/AIDS patientsaccounts for only 0.26 percent of the population and the country hasalso seen initial results in controlling HIV/AIDS.
Over the past two years, the number of people who die of the disease has dropped from 6,000 to 2,500 per year, Trong said.
Vietnam has issued the Law on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Controland many other legal documents on this issue, encouraging and creatingfavourable conditions for the greater participation of people and socialorganisations in the fight against HIV virus, he added.
He stressed that the Vietnamese government and people highly valuedthe important assistance and effective cooperation of the UN, especiallythe Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), international funds andorganisations, for Vietnam ’s prevention and control efforts over thepast years.
“The Vietnamese government and peopleare strongly committed to realising national and internationalobjectives on accessing and popularising HIV/AIDS prevention,treatment and care measures as well as the UN’s latest initiatives on nonew HIV carriers, no discrimination and no death of HIV/AIDS,” theDeputy PM said.
He also expressed his hope thatVietnam will receive continued support and close and effectivecooperation from the UN’s bodies and member countries as well asinternational organisations in this effort.
Morethan 30 heads of State and government along with 3,000 representativesfrom international, non-governmental and social organisations,development partners and people living with HIV/AIDS throughout theworld attended the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting onHIV/AIDS, which opened in New York on June 8.
The meeting includes a plenum, five sessions of UN committees and 40sidelines events, which aim to review progresses and challenges in thefight against HIV/AIDS during the past 30 years as well as discussfuture global responses to this disease in the next five years.
In his opening remarks, UN General Assembly President Joseph Deissaffirmed that it’s decisive time for the fight against HIV/AIDS, addingthat over the past three decades, more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and at least 25 million of them have died and over16 million children have lost their parents due to the disease.
Therefore, the meeting offers an important opportunity for UN membersto reaffirm commitments to enhance joint actions for the fight againstHIV/AIDS, he said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonaffirmed that the HIV/AIDS fight is not only the one against disease butalso the struggle for human rights and gender equality.
The meeting is an appeal to all partners for tightening globalsolidarity furthermost, considering it the only way to boost the accessand popularisation of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment measures andcare for HIV/AIDS patients in 2015, he said.
MichelSidibe, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS), highlighted the international community’s common successes inHIV/AIDS prevention over the past 30 years, saying that the rate of newHIV infected people on the globe fell by 25 percent compared to that of10 years ago, the number of people who died of the disease decreased by20 percent over the past five years and 6.6 million people in low-incomeand middle-income countries were provided with HIV treatment.
However, there are still 34 million people in the world living withHIV, the highest level over the past three decades, and 9 million HIVcarriers in poor countries are waiting for treatment, he said, addingthat about 330,000 children in poor nations are born with HIV/AIDS everyyear./.
