A medical worker gives advice to an carrier in Dong Thap province (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Health Ministry has reported that HIV carriers in the country has numbered
231,000, with 87,000 having developed full-blown , and HIV infection in
community has continuously been kept under 0.3 percent.
Up to 275 centres have been providing methadone treatment, while 385 facilities
supplied across 63 cities and provinces, it said.
In 2016, all provinces and cities had HIV testing facilities while community-based
testing and counseling models were piloted in Thanh Hoa, Thai Nguyen, Dien
Bien, Nghe An and Ho Chi Minh City, helping to detect 450 HIV carriers, or 10
percent of the new infections.
In the coming time, the health sector will expand the community-based HIV
testing models, deliver syringes and condoms free, especially in remote and
mountainous areas, and broaden the methadone treatment in detention camps and
rehab facilities, among others.
It will strengthen the quality of monitoring HIV in 30 provinces and cities,
conduct assessments of HIV/AIDS in highly-prone localities, and make forecast
on high-risk groups in all 63 cities and provinces in service of the making of
intervention plans and measures.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
