Nearly 10,000 HIV infections, 2,000 AIDS patients die in 2017

According to a report by the Ministry of Health, the risk of HIV transmission in 2017 remains high, with nearly 10,000 new cases and 2,000 AIDS deaths.

On the morning of January 19, the online conference on health care sector implementation in 2018 is organized by the Ministry of Health with a number of straightforward ideas, highlighting shortcomings and challenges that the industry has not yet achieved and need to overcome. The next year.

Nationally, there are about 210,000 people living with HIV , of whom 90,000 have transitioned to AIDS.

Over the past year, 9,800 new HIV infections have been detected and about 1,800 people have died of HIV infection.

Viet Nam in general and the Ministry of Health in particular aim to keep the HIV / AIDS prevalence under 0.3% and reduce the number of new infections in 2018.

In addition, for the past nine consecutive years, Vietnam has been successful in completing the new detection reduction trial, and moving to AIDS, in particular reducing the number of deaths from AIDS.

Prominent in HIV / AIDS prevention and control activities, community-based HIV counseling and testing continues to expand in 15 provinces and cities.