The Health Ministry will hold numerous activities to attract the participation of the community in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Meetings and parades will be held at wards and communes nationwide at 7.30 am on Nov. 28.
During the month, exhibitions on the 20-year fight against HIV/AIDS and contests of information dissemination on HIV/AIDS will be held across the country.
“The Vietnam Creative Day on HIV/AIDS Prevention 2010” will be held in early December to call on individuals and organisations to present their proposals on HIV/AIDS control.
A conference to review 20 years of Vietnam coping with the disease and the fourth scientific conference on the theme will also be organised at national level.
By September 2010, the total number of people infected with HIV in Vietnam has exceeded 180,300, including more than 42,000 developed to full-blown AIDS. More than 48,000 people have died of the disease.
The Vietnamese government has
carried out many measures and programmes on HIV/AIDS control and made
some gains – 2010 is the third consecutive year when the number of
people affected with the disease decreased and the year that the number
of deaths from HIV/AIDS dropped./.
