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HCM City takes steps to achieve UN 90-90-90 goals in HIV control

 VietNamNet Bridge – An additional 2,430 people with HIV were diagnosed in the first six months of the year, an increase of 732 compared to the same period last year, 

HCM City seeks to persuade HIV patients to persist with treatment

A campaign called Undetectable = Untransmittable was launched on Wednesday in HCM City to persuade people living with HIV to take antiretrovirals as prescribed by doctors to reduce the virus load in their body

Vietnam's AIDS, drugs and prostitution policies suffer from ineffective implementation

 VietNamNet Bridge – Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. 

VN faces big deficit in HIV/AIDS funding

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will face a huge budget deficit in health services for people with HIV/AIDS in the next five years,

HCM City to expand ARV therapy in AIDS fight

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to expand anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy to general district hospitals in an aim to achieve the target of providing treatment to 90 per cent of the city's patients diagnosed with HIV by 2020.