Obstacles in HIV/AIDS prevention should be removed: Experts
Localities are facing difficulties in implementing policies and legal documents in HIV/AIDS, drugs, and prostitution prevention, heard a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on March 31.
Medical workers give advice about HIV prevention (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - Localities are facingdifficulties in implementing policies and legal documents in HIV/AIDS, drugs,and prostitution prevention, heard a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on March 31.
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly’sCommittee for Social Affairs Dang Thuan Phong said there are shortcomings andoverlaps in legal documents related to the fight against HIV/AIDS, drugs andprostitution, therefore the involved agencies need to report and proposemeasures to revise these legal documents.
Pham Duc Manh, Deputy Head of the Department forHIV/AIDS Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Health (MoH), said the MoHhas advised the government and directly issue legal documents to implement theLaw on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control.
However, some regulations in these legaldocuments and the law are no longer suitable to the current scientificadvancements in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, he said.
Particularly, the regulations on AIDS diagnosisin the final stage, free HIV tests for all pregnant women, and HIV/AIDSprevention in businesses and working places are infeasible, hence they shouldbe changed, Manh suggested.
Delegates also pointed out restrictions insupporting HIV-infected people to buy health insurance as well as funding andhuman resource shortages that are hindering the fight against the fataldisease.
Phong said the proposals made at the workshop wouldhelp the National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs revise legaldocuments in the field.
He asked localities to strictly follow theGovernment’s directions to ensure the effective implementation of the NationalProgramme on HIV/AIDS, Drugs, and Prostitution Prevention and Control.
The workshop was jointly held by the NationalAssembly Committee for Social Affairs and the Joint United Nations Programme onHIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Vietnam hopes to reduce the number of peoplewith HIV to 0.3 percent by 2020. The country has committed to the global goalof Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination, Zero AIDS-related deaths.-VNA
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Medical workers give advice about HIV prevention (Photo: VNA) 
