85 percent of all people in Vietnam infected with HIV are aware of their status (Illustrative image - Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – A total 213,097, or 85percent of all people in Vietnam infected with HIV, were aware of their status asof September, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Vietnam is the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to commit to realising the90-90-90 target set by the UN.
According to the MoH’s Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, realisingthe 90-90-90 target is extremely important in preventing HIV/AIDS andeliminating it by 2030.
At present, nearly 151,000 HIV-infected people aware of their status haveundergone antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, accounting for 75 percent, while 96 percentof ARV-treated patients have had the virus suppressed.
The country is making every effort to have 95 percent of HIV carriers aware of theirstatus, 95 percent of whom are to access sustained ARV therapy and 95 percent ofsuch patients are to have the virus suppressed.
The targets are key to efforts to erase AIDS in Vietnam by2030, in accordance with the National Strategy on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control to 2030.
Since 2018, Vietnam has worked tirelessly to promote Undetectable=Untransmittable,or U=U (K=K in Vietnamese) - a campaign that encourages people living with HIV to undergo continualARV treatment to have their viral load suppressed and stop the virus from beingpassed on.
Reports from the MoH show that Vietnam has contained the prevalence of HIV among the general population to below0.3 percent, as targeted in the National Strategy on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control to 2020 with a Vision to 2030.
In the national strategy for ending AIDS by 2030, Vietnam targets bringingthe number of newly-detected infections to under 1,000 a year, while fatalitieslinked to HIV/AIDS are to be less than one per 100,000 people./.
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