To be implemented in2013-2017, the project targets drug users, sex workers, migrants, ethnicminority people, poor locals and healthcare workers in 80 districts in15 border provinces.
Apart from improving managementcapacity for HIV/AIDS prevention programmes at national, provincial anddistrict levels, it will look to enable grassroots healthcare systems toexpand HIV preventive services.
It will also contribute tofostering regional cooperation in preventing HIV transmission betweenborder-sharing countries.
Nguyen Thanh Long, Deputy Ministerof Public Health said the project will help realise the MillenniumDevelopment Goals (MDGs) on s topping and restricting gradually spreadof HIV/AIDS through providing high quality services for vulnerablegroups in the benefited localities.
Participants, who hailedfrom 15 border provinces, talked about how to organise trainingcourses, coordinate cross-border HIV/AIDS infection prevention plans andorganise HIV/AIDS tests.
Vietnam has detected 213,413HIV carriers who are still alive, of whom 63,373 have developed AIDS. Asmany as 65,133 accumulative deaths have been reported so far.
In the first five months of this year, on average 29 new cases were found daily nationwide.-VNA
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