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Dong Nai spends nearly 400 billion VND to reduce HIV/AIDS infection rate

On the afternoon of June 7, Mr. Nguyen Huu Tai, Deputy Director of Dong Nai Department of Health said that up to now, the whole province of Dong Nai is managing nearly 6,000 HIV-infected people with household registration in Dong Nai.

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A doctor examines a patient with HIV. Photo: Tue Man

Of which, only in 2021, the locality detected 732 new HIV-infected people, of which 65% were foreigners coming to live and work in the locality.

It is worth mentioning that 11 districts and cities in the province have HIV/AIDS infected people.

According to Mr. Tai, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Dong Nai province is still at a concentrated stage, mainly among high-risk groups such as: men who have sex with men; group of injecting drug users; spouses/partners of people living with HIV (high rates of HIV infection are in the age group 20-29).

Experts predict that by 2030, HIV/AIDS in Dong Nai will still be in a concentrated phase, mainly sexually transmitted, especially among men who have sex with men.

In order to reduce the number of new HIV/AIDS infected people, the People’s Committee of Dong Nai province has a plan (No. 122 dated June 1, 2022) to deploy and secure finance for the implementation of the National Strategy to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. locality.

According to this plan, Dong Nai province’s estimated budget for HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities in the 2021-2030 period is nearly 400 billion VND. This funding will be used to treat HIV/AIDS; spending on HIV infection prevention activities, surveillance, monitoring, evaluation and testing activities, system capacity building…

Funding sources come from the local budget and other lawful mobilized sources such as: central budget, international aid, health insurance fund, socialization source.

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