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According to report by the HIV/AIDS Prevention Center, by late 2009, there were
4,936 HIV/AIDS sufferers across the province in which 1,202 died of the disease.
Infected adults aged 20 to 29 occupied 57.31% while male sufferers represented
84% among them. HIV/AIDS infected 96 children. Most of the infected came from
urban areas. Bien Hoa city was the leading locality in terms of number of
sufferer with 2,169, making up 43.94%, followed by Long Thanh and Long Khanh
town.
According to Ms. Vo Thi Kim Loan, director of the provincial HIV/AIDS control
center, HIV/AIDS infection in Dong Nai was concentrating but more likely
to be younger, female, approaching communities and rural areas.
In 2009, the center already provided great number of services totally supporting
HIV/AIDS sufferers with long treatments; 3,504 patients were offered
consultancies and HIV tests at the center; it also propagated the harm of
HIV/AIDS, issued syringes and injection needles, and condoms to thousands of
people; implemented the program of healthcare and treatment for mother-to-child
HIV/AIDS infection.
The conference also decided the 2010 goals that it would have HIV/AIDS rate
dropped at 0.3% or less in community; step up propagation; foster healthcare and
treatment; and support sufferers to join the intervention program of harm
reduction and scale up treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
L.H (H.Anh)