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In December 2017, the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) updated the national care and treatment guidelines to include same-day treatment initiation and longer ARV refill periods to improve treatment retention. USAID’s Sustainable HIV Response From Technical Assistance (SHIFT) Project recently helped VAAC finalize a training curriculum as well as tools that support the implementation of these crucial strategies. In June, the curriculum and tools were used at training workshops in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to equip 87 health officials and health care providers from 24 HIV treatment facilities with the skills needed to implement same-day treatment initiation and facilitate longer ARV refill periods.
Vietnam is striving to adapt to climate change impacts, mitigate greenhouse gas emission, and conserve its globally unique forests and fauna while maintaining its drive for sustainable economic growth. To achieve its ambitious goal, Vietnam needs to strengthen its institutional capacities to better manage forest resources, particularly at subnational levels.
The HIV prevalence rate among men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased rapidly in Vietnam over the last few years. On June 22, USAID’s Healthy Markets activity brought together leaders from the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) and civil society groups for MSM as part of a collaborative process to develop the country’s first National HIV Prevention Guidelines for MSM.
The PEPFAR Annual Meeting (PAM) and the 22nd International AIDS Conference (IAS) in Amsterdam on July 20-27, 2018 are state-of-the-art technical meetings that showcase the innovative work PEPFAR staff, partners, civil society, scientists and the private sector are doing to bring us closer to epidemic control.
The northern mountainous provinces are among the poorest in Vietnam and include several provinces that regularly are some of the lowest performing provinces in the USAID-supported Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI). The index measures a provincial government’s support for operating and investing in businesses.
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