85 percent of all people in Vietnam infected with HIV are aware of their status (Illustrative image – Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – A total 213,097, or 85
percent of all people in Vietnam infected with HIV, were aware of their status as
of September, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Vietnam is the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to commit to realising the
set by the UN.
According to the MoH’s Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, realising
the 90-90-90 target is extremely important in preventing HIV/AIDS and
eliminating it by 2030.
At present, nearly 151,000 HIV- people aware of their status have
dergone antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, accounting for 75 percent, while 96 percent
of ARV-treated patients have had the virus suppressed.
The country is making every effort to have 95 percent of HIV carriers aware of their
status, 95 percent of whom are to access sustained ARV therapy and 95 percent of
such patients are to have the virus suppressed.
The targets are key to efforts to erase AIDS in Vietnam by
2030, in accordance with the National Strategy on and Control to 2030.
Since 2018, Vietnam has worked tirelessly to promote Undetectable=Untransmittable,
or U=U (K=K in Vietnamese) – a campaign that encourages people living with HIV to undergo continual
ARV treatment to have their viral load suppressed and stop the virus from being
passed on.
Reports from the MoH show that Vietnam has contained the prevalence of HIV among the general population to below
0.3 percent, as targeted in the National Strategy on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control to 2020 with a Vision to 2030.
In the national strategy for ending AIDS by 2030, Vietnam targets bringing
the number of newly-detected infections to under 1,000 a year, while fatalities
linked to HIV/AIDS are to be less than one per 100,000 people./.
Source: VietnamPlus
