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The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has so far
provided US$400 million for Vietnam’s HIV/AIDS prevention program, Dr.
Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the Central Hygiene and Epidemiology
Institute, said.
The money has been used for
delivering comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and
support services in Vietnam since it joined PEPFAR in 2004.
Speaking at a conference titled
Updates and Best Practices in Second Generation HIV/AIDS Surveillance:
The Asia Experience being held in Ho Chi Minh City, he said Vietnam has
fundamentally carried out second generation HIV/AIDS surveillance work
initiated by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations
Program on HIV/AIDS.
PEPFAR had also funded
antiretroviral-based treatment for 23,400 AIDS patients in Vietnam by
September 2009, according to Vietnamese government’s website.
It is the only donor of methadone, mainly used in drug rehabilitation, and a major provider of condoms in the country.
Vietnam has nearly 157,000 people
with HIV, of whom around 34,400 have developed full blown AIDS. More
than 44,000 have died of the disease.
(Source:Vietnews)
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