Checking health of a HIV patient who is using ARV drugs (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Early HIV testing is essential for pregnant women tominimise the risk to transmit the virus from mother to child.
This is the main message of the action month to preventmother-to-child HIV transmission in June 2018.
The purpose of the action month is to promote theinvolvement of the entire political system and people in reducing the rate ofmother-to-child HIV transmission to below 2 percent by 2020.
It also aims to raise the awareness of people from all walksof life, especially pregnant women and spouses of people with HIV, of the benefitsof early HIV testing.
Activities held during the month also look to reducediscriminations against HIV-infected pregnant women and their children.
Throughout the month, services to prevent mother-to-childHIV transmission will be stepped up, including expanding HIV testing forpregnant women, and providing anti-retroviral drugs for HIV-infected women.
The Ministry of Health’s Maternal and Child Health Department reportedthat the rate of HIV infection among the country’s two million pregnant womenevery year is 0.25 percent.
Pregnant women living in districts reported to be HIVhotbeds in 32 provinces and cities will be tested for HIV. All those who areconfirmed HIV positive will be given long-term anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment.
Vietnam is aiming to keep the rate of new HIV/AIDSinfections below 0.3 percent, while reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS onsocio-economic development.
Vietnam saw decreases in the number of new HIV infections, people livingwith AIDS and AIDS-related fatalities for the tenth consecutive year in 2017,according to the Ministry of Health.
More than 209,400 people areliving with HIV nationwide, including more than 90,100 cases of HIV developinginto full-blown AIDS, and about 94,600 people have died of HIV/AIDS so far. Thecountry’s HIV/AIDS prevalence among the population remains below 0.3 percent.
Last year, the country recorded about9,800 people newly infected with HIV and 1,800 deaths due to HIV, down 1.1percent and 15 percent, respectively, from 2016. The number of peoplecontracting AIDS also declined by 39 percent.-VNA
A workshop was held in Hanoi on May 22 to gather ideas for the building of a national action plan to eliminate the transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis from mothers to children.
A total of 1,200 people who are at high risk of contracting HIV have been provided with Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), which can reduce the risk of infecting HIV if taken consistently.
HCM City needs to develop specific healthcare policies and guidelines for transgender women as HIV prevalence among this group is estimated to be about 19 percent worldwide, according to Dr Hoang Dinh Canh, deputy director of the Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control.
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The patient, Tieu Viet But, born in 1970 and residing in Binh Tri commune, Binh Son district, the central province of Quang Ngai, was working aboard fishing vessel Qng – 95657TS when the incident occurred at 7:00 am.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Checking health of a HIV patient who is using ARV drugs (Source: VNA) 
