Legislators will debate online the draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in the morning of October 23, the fourth day of the legislature’s 10th sitting. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Legislators will debateonline the draft law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Lawon HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in the morning of October 23, the fourth dayof the legislature’s 10th sitting.
The amendment and supplement aim to institutionaliseviewpoints and guidelines stated in the Party Central Committee’s ResolutionNo. 20-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017, regarding the enhancement of the protectionand improvement of the public’s health in the new situation.
Under the resolution, Vietnam strives to basicallyput an end to the disease by 2030, and increase domestic resources for thefight.
The lawmakers will focus their discussions on how toenhance the access to information on HIV carriers, testing cost to preventmother-to-child HIV transmission and treatment funding, among others.
In the afternoon, the NA deputies will mull over thedraft revised law on Vietnamese guest workers under contracts, which wasscrutinised at the ninth sitting of the legislature and the 46th session of the NA Standing Committee. /.
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