HIV patient who is using ARV drugs checked health (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi is making efforts to achieve the 90-90-90 goals in
HIV/AIDS prevention set by the United Nations by 2020.
The mean that by , 90
percent of HIV-infected people will know their infection status, 90 percent
will receive anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs and 90 percent of people taking ARV
drugs will have durable viral suppression.
To that end, Vice Chairman of the municipal
People’s Committee Le Hong Son asked offices and districts to actively carry
out action plans.
According to him, communication work on
HIV/AIDS prevention is not spread yet, so people do not have sufficient
awareness of preventing , while units lack coordination and action
programmes.
Therefore, he asked for intensified
dissemination to raise public awareness and stop discrimination against people
with HIV/AIDS.
The Health Department should implement a
programme of action, expand the use of methadone therapy for drug addicts and
scale up HIV counselling and testing, he suggested.
Deputy head of the Health Department Hoang
Duc Hanh said that as of April 30, reported nearly 20,000 people living
with HIV/AIDS, ranking second in the nation and accounting for nearly 10
percent of the nation’s total cases.
All districts of the city have people living
with HIV, with those aged 25-49 accounting for 70 percent of the total.
The rates of newly-detected HIV infections
via blood, sex and mother to child transmission in the first four months of
this year were 36.9 percent, 63.1 percent and zero percent, respectively.
As of late 2017, 67.8 percent of
HIV-infected people knew their infection status, while 53 percent of HIV
positive people received ARV drugs.
2017 is the 10th consecutive year that
Vietnam has seen decreases in the number of newly-discovered HIV infections,
the number of transmissions to full-blown AIDS and the number of AIDS-caused
deaths. Each year, about 10,000 new HIV infection cases were discovered in the
country, mostly transmitted via sex.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
