Vietnam

HIV/AIDS in Vietnam

• 0.4% Estimated Prevalence
  (Age 15–49)
• 14,000 Estimated Deaths (2010)
• NA Estimated Orphans
• 37,995 Reported Number of People Receiving ART
• 110,000 Estimated Number of People Needing ART
  
  

  SOURCE:
  UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, November 2010

HIV/AIDS Assets and Strategic Focus

Strategic Focus
The CDC Vietnam office was established in 2001. CDC focuses its efforts on high prevalence provinces and working in partnership with the Government of Vietnam (GVN) to support targeted programming for most-at-risk populations, which include: injection drug users (IDU), commercial sex workers, and men who have sex with men.

Strengthening Laboratory Systems and Networks
CDC supports Vietnam in developing sustainable infrastructures to accurately and efficiently diagnose, stage, and monitor HIV treatment, these activities include: evaluation of rapid HIV testing technologies for same day results, developing a CD4 testing network, expanded viral load testing capacity, and HIV drug resistance monitoring. CDC supports strategic planning and the creation of national testing guidelines.

Building Surveillance and Health Information Systems
CDC builds in-country capacity to design, implement, and evaluate surveillance systems and improves broader national health information systems to collect, store, analyze, and use high-quality data essential to HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs. CDC works with Vietnamese national universities and institutes to strengthen pre- and in-service training in core public health areas related to surveillance, applied epidemiology, biostatistics, informatics, data-use, and research.

Maximizing Impact Through IDU-targeted Interventions
CDC works with the GVN to develop programs targeting current and recovering IDUs, including: risk reduction interventions, medication-assisted therapy, and other addictions recovery support, in addition to critical HIV/AIDS interventions such as the provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART).