US announces $26mil. HIV prevention project in Vietnam
The U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) has announced its new, five-year, $26
million project to strengthen and sustain Vietnam’s HIV and AIDS response.
A medical practitioner provides
healthcare check for a HIV patient. The US Government has announced a $26m
project to help Việt Nam cope with the illness.
The Sustainable HIV Response From Technical Assistance
(SHIFT) Project, implemented by FHI 360 until 2021, will strengthen Vietnam’s
human, organizational, and systems capacity to lead the national HIV and AIDS
response.
“The project will scale up services along the entire
HIV care continuum from diagnosis to successful treatment in high HIV
burden provinces to achieve “90-90-90” HIV case-finding, care, and treatment
targets,” said USAID Vietnam Mission Director Michael Greene, who assumed the
post last week.
“It will also provide demand-driven technical
assistance at the national, provincial and local levels to build sustainable
HIV/AIDS services and systems,” he said.
There were an estimated 260,000 people living with HIV
in Vietnam as of 2016. In recent years, new cases of HIV have declined.
In 2014, Vietnam became the the first country in Asia
to adopt the 90–90–90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), under which: by 2020, 90% of people living with HIV will
know their HIV status; 90% of people who know their status are on HIV
treatment; and 90% of all people on treatment will have undetectable levels
of HIV in their body (known as viral suppression).
USAID first supported HIV/AIDS programs in Vietnam in
the mid-1990s. In June 2004, HIV/AIDS assistance to Vietnam significantly
increased under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Under PEPFAR, USAID works closely with other U.S.
government agencies and the Government of Vietnam (GVN) at the national,
provincial, and district levels to support the goals of the National HIV/AIDS
Strategy.
Since 2005, the U.S. government through PEPFAR has
supported life-saving antiretroviral treatment for almost 57,000 people, and
provided care to more than 62,000 adults and children nationwide.
In the last year, PEPFAR assistance provided HIV tests
to over 375,000 people and methadone replacement therapy to almost 25,000
people.
Le Ha, VNN
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Thứ Tư, 27 tháng 7, 2016
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