Delivering ARV to people having HIV (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi has seen improvements in three criteria for ,
including the number of people newly diagnosed with HIV, the number of
transferring to AIDS stage, and the number of people who
have died of over the past decade.
La Thi Lan,
Vice Director of the , attributed the results to
the city’s efforts in applying measures to control the transmission of the
virus.
She said that
the city has offered rewards of up to 1.8 million VND (77.4 USD) to those who
manage to persuade people living with HIV to receive antiretroviral (ARV) therapy.
The centre
has launched the “K=K” campaign or
Khong phat hien = Khong lay truyen (Undetectable=Untransmittable) to control the
spread of HIV in the city, she noted.
However, Lan pointed out that despite the reduction,
the city has faced many difficulties in controlling HIV transmission among the
community.
She underlined that the number of sexually transmitted
infections has risen recently, with the ratio of people contracting to the
virus through sexual activities rising from 34.4 percent in 2015 to 65.6
percent in 2018.
Lan stressed the need for urgent preventive measures
to minimise the spread of the virus.
As of December 31, 2018, Vietnam had accumulated a
total of 250,000 people diagnosed with HIV, including 2,150 deceased. As many
as 63 percent of HIV cases are sexually transmitted and between the ages of 15-49.
In 2018 alone, Hanoi diagnosed about 1,290 new HIV
cases. –VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
