Faster actions needed to end HIV/AIDS in 2030: Deputy PM
It is necessary to speed up efforts to put an end to the AIDS pandemic in 2030, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS on June 8.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam addresses the UN) General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS (Photo: VNA)
NewYork (VNA) - It is necessary to speed up efforts to put an end to theAIDS pandemic in 2030, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at the UnitedNations (UN) General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS on June 8.
Addressingthe event held virtually, the Deputy PM stressed the need to ensure sufficientresources for HIV/AIDS response, especially for developing nations,non-disruptive supply of antiretrovirals and accelerating the development ofHIV vaccines and cure medicines.
Damreiterated Vietnam’s commitment to achieve the 90-90-90 target (90 percent ofall people living with HIV know their disease status, 90 percent of all peoplewith diagnosed HIV infection receive sustained antiretroviral therapy, and 90percent of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viralsuppression), stressing that to reach the upcoming 95-95-95 goal, the worldneeds 100-100-100 effort, and even more.
Atthe meeting, President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, UN DeputySecretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, and UNAIDS Executive Director WinnieByanyima lauded the active engagement of member countries in coping with HIV/AIDSover the years.
Bozkirdescribed AIDS as an epidemic of inequalities. To end AIDS by 2030,he called for ending inequalities.
Endingthe disease is both a prerequisite for — and a result of — implementing theSustainable Development Goals, he stressed.
Accordingto UNAIDS, 37.6 million people across the globe were living with HIV in 2020,including 27.4 million people accessing antiretroviral therapy, more than threetimes higher than that in 2010, at 7.8 million.
Thenumber of people died from AIDS-related illnesses fell 43 percent in 2020 to690,000./.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on December 15 launched the Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project in Vietnam.
WHO appreciates Vietnam's efforts to put new treatments and services to bring benefits to people infected with HIV/ADIS, said Dr. Kidong Park, the WHO Representative in Vietnam.
Vietnam is working to expand the use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) service and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to reduce HIV infections in the community.
Vietnam hopes to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to about 160,000 people living with HIV/AIDS this year, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
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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.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam addresses the UN) General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS (Photo: VNA) 
