The Vietnamese Government remains committed to prioritising resources, developing synchronous policies, and implementing effective measures for HIV/AIDS prevention and control, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long said on November 29.

Vietnam is promoting policy advocacy, collecting comments on research results from stakeholders, discussing orientations, and making recommendations on the use of new long-acting antiretroviral in HIV prevention and treatment.

A national communication campaign named “undetectable equals untransmittable” (U=U, or Khong phat hien=Khong lay truyen K=K in Vietnamese) was launched in Hanoi on October 22 with the support of the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The southern province of Dong Nai had a meeting on May 9 with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to discuss a project to give technical support to the province, aiming to prevent and control HIV/AIDS in the locality.

Vietnam will strength integrating HIV and drug addiction treatment toward the 90-90-90 targets.

N.C.T, a 32-year-old man, and his partner, a 38-year-old man, are waiting at the District 11 Preventive Medicine Centre to receive free antiretroviral drugs.

A Ministry of Health (MoH) pilot programme to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels has yielded positive results, experts said.