Participants at the conference (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – An estimated 5,500 people living with HIV in the community have yet to be identified in Ho Chi Minh City, with about 30 percent having high viral load rate s that are potentially transmitting the virus to others, according to Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Health Nguyen Huu Hung . Addressing a conference to review the HIV/AIDS prevention over the last 30 years in Ho Chi Minh City on January 14, Hung stressed that this is one of the challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS at present. Since the first case of HIV infection found in HCM City in December 1990, the municipal authorities have focused on curbing the epidemic’s development via communications and education activities to raise public awareness of protecting themselves, and building HIV prevention models. As a result, the rate of HIV infection among drug users decreased to 18.6 percent 1998 from 42.3 percent in 1995. In the 2000-2010 period, HIV prevention models were applied across the city. Meanwhile, the introduction of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy created favourable conditions for the city to expand prevention and treatment programmes. The city has so far had 145 facilities providing HIV… Read full this story
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