Mission Vietnam
Infant mortality: 17‰
Life expectancy at birth: 70.8
HDI: 0.709; RANK 109/177
Real GDP/inhabitant ($): 550
Population:
» Beneficiaries, project 1: 4,000
» Beneficiaries, project 2: 6,500
» Target, project 1: 25,000
» Target, project 2: 266,000
Personnel:
» Local, project 1: 7
» Local, project 2: 7
» Expatriate, project 1: 3
» Expatriate, project 2: 2
Funding:
» Project 1: PACT, USAID
» Project 2: PACT, USAID
Budget 2007:
» Project 1: 279,234 e
» Project 2: 284,682 e
Vietnam has been a member of the World Trade Organization since 2006 and the economy is expanding
rapidly. Nonetheless, 1.4 million households live below the poverty line. Inequalities are increasing and thousands of people (18.3% of the urban population and 44.9% in rural areas) live in great precarity. In the absence of an appropriate response from the public authorities, the AIDS virus is spreading. The last UNAIDS report noted that the epidemic rose from 120,000 people infected in 2000 to 260,000 in 2005.
Project 1 :
Testing and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS - Hanoi
Activities :
In 2007, the following activities were undertaken:
• HIV tests, primary healthcare consultations, treatment of opportunistic infections and sexually transmitted infections, anti-retroviral treatment in a day care centre;
• prevention, needle exchange, condom distribution, home-based care by two mobile teams;
• promoting income generating activities within community groups;
• training for healthcare workers and social workers;
• 178 patients are receiving anti-retroviral treatment.
Project 2 :
Limiting the spread of HIV - Ho Chi Minh City
Activities :
The third year of the project continued to provide screening for sexually transmitted infections and HIV, with the deployment of new mobile teams covering several districts of Ho Chi Minh city. It also involved improving access to treatment for sexually transmitted infections and opportunistic infections, and the training of staff in HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions linked to HIV and the administration of anti-retroviral treatment. At the end of 2007, 526 patients (including 11 children) were receiving anti-retroviral treatment, and 1,787 patients had been diagnosed as infected with HIV.
Outlook :
The intention is to replicate the programme in another district of Ho Chi Minh City. This one is more rural because it is on the outskirts of the city. A methadone substitution programme should be implemented in the community health centre where the anti-retroviral therapy is dispensed and the clinical monitoring of patients takes place.
August 2008