VGP - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is committed to continuing support for Viet Nam to put an end to these three diseases.

VGP - The Municipal People’s Committee of Ha Noi has set up a plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in the city by 2030.

VGP - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh underlined the need to pay greater attention to anti-drug activities at grassroots level, focusing on high-risk groups while addressing a conference on drug prevention and control on March 10.

VGP - After nearly ten years of unremitting efforts and solid political commitments, Viet Nam transformed domestic financial resources for HIV prevention with impressive results.

VGP - UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr Taoufik Bakkali, highly appreciated the HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Viet Nam.

VGP - The National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control launched nationwide National Action Month for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control 2022 from November 10 to December 10, 2022.

VGP - With the approval of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Public Security of Viet Nam has presided over and coordinated with the Ministry of Public Security of Laos to organize a bilateral ministerial conference on drug prevention cooperation on October 26 in Ha Noi.

VGP - USAID Viet Nam was committed to working closely with partners to leverage private sector expertise, resources, and investment to address HIV/AIDS challenges and make an impact on a larger scale.

VGP - Currently, the rate of health insurance coverage in HIV/AIDS treatment nationwide is 91 percent, in which 12 provinces and cities have a coverage rate equal to or greater than 99 percent, while the remaining provinces and towns have a coverage rate of 80-90 percent.

VGP - In 2016, the proportion of people participating in ART with health insurance cards only reached 50 percent, while by 2022, this rate increased to 95 percent, which made Viet Nam a bright spot in the world regarding the financial mechanism transformation for HIV/AIDS treatment programs.

VGP - The 14th Thailand-Viet Nam Bilateral Meeting on Drug Control Cooperation took place in Thailand to discuss the significant results achieved by the two sides and directions for drug prevention and control cooperation.

VGP - General To Lam, Minister of Public Security, said that for many years, the annual target of reducing crime by 5 percent had continuously exceeded the plan, which contributed to realizing the goal of building a safe society for Vietnamese people to live stably within the legal framework.

VGP - A number of key tasks for AIDS, drug and prostitution prevention and control work for 2022 were figured out, including providing Methadone treatment for more than 50,000 drug addicts.

VGP - Police officials detected 1,774 drug-related cases, arrested 2,529 involved suspects and seized more than 86kg of heroin, 46kg and 102,000 pills of synthetic drugs in February.

VGP - The second conference on improving efficiency of international cooperation in combating human trafficking took place virtually in Ho Chi Minh City from February 20-21.

VGP - Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Duy Ngoc paid a courtesy visit to Singaporean Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan and held a working session with Commissioner of the Singapore Police Force Hoong Wee Teck as part of his visit to Singapore last week.

VGP – Viet Nam’s representatives on September 28 attended a Preparatory ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) for the 15th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC) which was held virtually in Brunei.

VGP - The State supports 95 percent of expenses of voluntary drug addiction treatment and common medicines for six subjects.

VGP - Traffic police officials detected 116 drug trafficking cases in the first month of 2022, seizing 13 bricks of heroin, 26,771 synthetic drug pills and more than 64 kilograms of drugs of all kinds, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

VGP - Border guards in the northern province of Lao Cai have coordinated with local police force to arrest three people who were illegally transporting 40 bricks (about 13.6kg) of heroin.

VGP - The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on December 17 sentenced two Taiwanese men to death for illegally trafficking up to 606kg of drugs.

VGP – Around 12,000 new HIV carriers and about 2,000 deaths of HIV/AIDS each year are recorded in Viet Nam every year.

VGP - Fourteen Vietnamese nationals trafficked to Myanmar were brought home on November 21.

VGP - USAID’s Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project supported ASK Minh Ngoc Polyclinic, a private clinic in Ha Noi that targets MSM and other LGBT+ groups, to apply for a license with the Ha Noi Department of Health to provide PrEP, a process that took for more than one year.