VietNamNet Bridge – Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. 

 Globally, people's health is improving and life expectancy is rising, but progress is far from universal with chronic diseases bringing long-term illness and causing seven out of 10 deaths,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged ministries and agencies to enhance measures to prevent and control HIV/AIDS, drugs and prostitution from now to the end of the year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Those most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS will have the opportunity to receive free legal counsel, for example in employment and marriage issues, in a national pilot project kicking off soon.

 People with HIV and AIDS are expecting medical costs to soar when international health aid is cut off next year, participants at a policy dialogue said on June 27.

 Anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS will be paid by health insurance from June 2016, said the Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention under the Ministry of Public Health.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will continue facing difficulties controlling HIV/AIDS due to a shortage of international aid, which accounted for more than 70 per cent of the country's HIV/AIDS response funding,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Staff at child welfare centres and shelters in the country need to be better trained about children's psychological development,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Whenever social worker Truong Ngoc Nhu hears about the delivery of a baby to a mother infected with HIV, she immediately visits her district's hospital to counsel the mother,

 VietNamNet Bridge - End-stage AIDS patients in Nhan Ai Hospital in the central province of Binh Phuoc are as silent as ghosts. Their eyes show excruciating pain as their lives are only measured in days.

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 VietNamNet Bridge - With more than 220,000 people infected with HIV, Vietnam ranks fifth in Asia-Pacific (after India, China, Indonesia and Thailand) for the number of HIV carriers, said Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.

 The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) pledged to work closely with Vietnam to prevent and drive back the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Secretary General Martin Chungong told National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong at a meeting in Hanoi on November 30.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – When I arrived, Nguyen Van Kien (name changed) was lying on a bare, rickety bed made of thin wooden planks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All schools nation-wide have been given targets to enroll children affected by HIV/AIDS by 2020.

The Asian Development Bank will provide a strategic link between Myanmar government and non- governmental organizations in expanding HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services, using funds from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction,

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the first nine months of this year, an average of 34 people contracted HIV each day, according to recent statistics from the Ministry of Health.