Aug 20, 2019 / 08:45
Nearly 4,000 pregnant women infected with HIV each year in Vietnam
If detected early and treated timely, mother-to-child transmission cases could be limited.
Nearly 4,000 Vietnamese women are infected with HIV every year, according to the Department of Maternal and Child Health under Ministry of Health.
Therefore, it is extremely necessary to give them guidance to protect their fetus.
Last June, the Hanoi Department of Health implemented a communication campaign for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission with a series of activities such as providing 279,564 condoms to 821 female sex workers and 1,724 men who have sex with men (msm).
According to the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control, since implementing "Prevention Month of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission" in June on a annual basis since 2009, the rate of mother-to-child HIV infection has decreased.
Specifically, the rate was 10.8% in 2010, and then fell to 2.8% in 2015 and was only 1.93% by the end of 2018, meeting the standard of eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission.
The Department of Maternal and Child Health also shows that nearly two million Vietnamese women get pregnant each year, of them HIV infection among pregnant women accounts for 0.19% (equivalent to more than 3,800 cases) and the number of children born with HIV from HIV-infected mothers each year is about 1,140 – 1,520, accounting for 30-40% of the cases.
In order to further reduce the rate of HIV-infected children from their mothers, the Ministry of Health proposes to keep educating about benefits and effectiveness of preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, counseling on HIV testing for pregnant women, enhancing effective ARV prophylaxis, well managing the HIV-acquired mothers, among other measures.
To detect HIV infection in pregnant women, all expectant mothers should go to health facilities for HIV testing and counseling as soon as possible, preferably in the first three months. If detected early and treated timely, mother-to-child transmission cases could be limited.
Therefore, it is extremely necessary to give them guidance to protect their fetus.
Illustrative photo
|
According to the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control, since implementing "Prevention Month of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission" in June on a annual basis since 2009, the rate of mother-to-child HIV infection has decreased.
Specifically, the rate was 10.8% in 2010, and then fell to 2.8% in 2015 and was only 1.93% by the end of 2018, meeting the standard of eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission.
The Department of Maternal and Child Health also shows that nearly two million Vietnamese women get pregnant each year, of them HIV infection among pregnant women accounts for 0.19% (equivalent to more than 3,800 cases) and the number of children born with HIV from HIV-infected mothers each year is about 1,140 – 1,520, accounting for 30-40% of the cases.
In order to further reduce the rate of HIV-infected children from their mothers, the Ministry of Health proposes to keep educating about benefits and effectiveness of preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, counseling on HIV testing for pregnant women, enhancing effective ARV prophylaxis, well managing the HIV-acquired mothers, among other measures.
To detect HIV infection in pregnant women, all expectant mothers should go to health facilities for HIV testing and counseling as soon as possible, preferably in the first three months. If detected early and treated timely, mother-to-child transmission cases could be limited.
Other News
- Millions of children in Vietnam protected by vaccination over 40 years: UN agencies
- Hanoi strives to ensure smooth high school exams
- Applying digital transformation to foster reading culture
- "Denmark in Your Eyes Contest: Youth networking for a green future
- National language celebrated by Vietnamese community in South Korea
- Hanoi accelerating efforts to reduce new tuberculosis cases
- Hanoi tackles overcrowded classrooms
- Vietnamese journalists get expertise from Indian experts
- Effective STEM education in Hanoi schools
- Vietnamese students' skills recognized in PISA survey
Trending
-
Hanoi cracks down on food safety violations
-
Vietnam news in brief - May 3
-
Four- and five-star hotels to boom in Hanoi as tourism rebounds
-
Trivial jobs: Hanoians strive to keep their old trades alive
-
Hanoi strives to ensure smooth high school exams
-
Carnaval Ha Long 2024 woos tourists with fireworks and drone light shows
-
Affordable, quality tours offered at Hanoi Tourism Festival 2024
-
Introduction of community tourism area in Hanoi herb kingdom
-
Capital Law revision helps Hanoi promote role as nation’s socio-economic hub