26-million USD project boosts HIV/AIDS response in Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday announced its new 26-million U.S. dollar project to strengthen and sustain Vietnam's HIV and AIDS response.

The five-year project will scale up services along the entire HIV care continuum from diagnosis to successful treatment in high HIV burden provinces to achieve "90-90-90" HIV case-finding, care, and treatment targets, the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam said.

In 2014, Vietnam became the first country in Asia to adopt the 90-90-90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, under which: by 2020, 90 percent of people living with HIV will know their HIV status; 90 percent of people who know their status are on HIV treatment; and 90 percent of all people on treatment will have undetectable levels of HIV in their body.