Strengthen the capacity of the HIV/AIDS prevention and control system
09/03/2022 15:20 85
The Provincial People's Committee has just issued the Plan on HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Quang Ngai province in 2022. 
It aims at promoting HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities to reduce the number of new HIV infections and the number of deaths related to HIV/AIDS; contributing to ending the AIDS epidemic in Vietnam by 2030; minimizing the impact of HIV/AIDS on socio-economic development.
It also includes specific targets:
The rate of people with high-risk behaviors accessing HIV prevention services reached 75%;
The rate of people living with HIV in the community knowing their HIV status reached 90%;
The rate of HIV-infected people knowing their HIV status receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV reaches 90%;
The rate of people receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV with viral load below the suppression threshold reached 95%;
The rate of HIV transmission from mother to child is less than 2%.
It ensures 100% of people living with HIV have health insurance cards as prescribed.
It will strengthen the capacity of the HIV/AIDS prevention and control system at all levels; ensure human resources for HIV/AIDS prevention and control; financial guarantee for HIV/AIDS prevention and control according to regulations.
The Provincial People's Committee also gave specific groups of tasks and solutions.
It will strengthen information, education and communication on HIV/AIDS prevention; provide needles and syringes and condoms to people at high risk of infection and people living with HIV to practice safe sex; treatment of addiction to opiates with methadone substitutes.
It will increase testing for HIV detection, HIV epidemic surveillance; examine, monitor and evaluate antiretroviral (ARV) treatment; strength the capacity system for HIV/AIDS prevention and control.
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