THE PRIME MINISTER
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence– Freedom – Happiness
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No. 608/QD-TTg
Hanoi, May 25, 2012
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL STRATEGY ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL THROUGH 2020 WITH A VISION TO 2030
THE PRIME MINISTER
 
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Law on Prevention and Control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) dated June 29, 2006;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve the national strategy on HIV/AIDS prevention and control through 2020 with a vision to 2030 issued together with this Decision.
Article 2. This Decision takes effect on its signing date.
Article 3. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-affiliated agencies and chairman of provincial-level People's Committees shall implement this Decision.
 

 

 
FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER




Nguyen Xuan Phuc
 
NATIONAL STRATEGY
ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL THROUGH 2020 WITH A VISION TO 2030
(Issued together with the Decision No. 608/QD-TTg dated May 25, 2012 of the Prime Minister)
Part 1
BACKGROUND FOR ISSUANCE OF THE STRATEGY
HIV/AIDS is a dangerous pandemic threatening people's life and health as well as future generations of all countries and nations worldwide, directly impacting the country's economic and cultural development and social order and safety and threatening its sustainable development.
In Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Health statistics, by the end of 2011, the country had 197,335 alive people infected with HIV, of whom 48,720 had developed AIDS; since the beginning of the epidemic, 52,325 people have died of HIV/ AIDS. Surveillance data showed that the HIV/ AIDS epidemic has spread to all provinces and cities nationwide since 1998; by the end of 2011, HIV cases had been reported in 98% of urban districts, rural districts and towns and 77% of communes, wards and townships.
Being aware of the danger of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Vietnamese Party and State have issued many important legal documents with a view to controlling the increase of this epidemic. Noteworthy among them is the national strategy on HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Vietnam through 2010 with a vision to 2020, issued together with the Prime Minister's Decision No. 36/2004/QD-TTg dated March 17, 2004. The implementation of this national strategy on HIV/AIDS prevention and control has received the active leadership and direction of ministries, sectors, Party Committees and administrations at all levels in provinces and centrally run cities and recorded many important achievements, contributing to preventing and curbing the increase of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and Vietnam fulfilled the objective set out by the strategy for this period of controlling the HIV infection rate at below 0.3% in the residential communities in 2010.