Celebrating World AIDS Day
01/12/2020
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World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988 by the Global AIDS Program, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who died of this disease.
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According to Mr Eamonn Murphy - UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, from 2010 to 2018, Vietnam managed to reduce new HIV infections by 65 per cent, recording the greatest leap in the Asia-Pacific region in controlling virus transmission.
With the 90-90-90 target (90% of infected people knowing their medical status, 90% of that group accessing sustained antiretroviral (ARV) therapy and 90% of those treated patients having the virus suppressed) and the aim to eliminate AIDS epidemic by 2030, more effort is needed to confront with challenges in discrimination and treatment accessibility (about 40% of people living with HIV still not yet benefited from antiretroviral treatment) within the community.
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