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ASIA PULSE WIRE SERVICE (11/23/98)
Vietnam Will Require
Vietnam will need almost 180 million condoms a year early next century to help prevent the spread of HIV, according to a study by the National AIDS Committee. The committee also reported that the annual expenditure for condoms could double over the next five years, with $2 million being spent next year. The study was presented Thursday at a meeting on contraceptive requirements in Hanoi that focused on ways to address the $55 million in funding needed for contraceptives through the year 2007 in Vietnam.
Contraceptive use has increased by 2 percent annually over the last eight years, according to the report.
NEWSDAY ONLINE (10/26/98)
Vietnam Reports 10,560 HIV Cases
The Vietnamese National AIDS Committee announced Monday that there are 10,560 reported cases of HIV in the country, although the actual number of infections could be up to 10 times as high. The committee also reported that there are 1,901 AIDS cases and that 1,013 people have died of AIDS since the first case was detected in the country in 1990. HIV has spread to every province in the country, save one; the highest number of infections--2,640--was found in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Vietnamese government has allocated over $4 million to combat the disease, with the majority of the funding going to education programs.
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HIV SPREADS IN VIETNAM, DEATH TOLL RISES SHARPLY
HANOI, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV) has spread to all but one province in Vietnam, while the
death toll from full-blown AIDS has risen by 50 percent in the
past month alone, an official said on Wednesday.
The official from the National AIDS Protection Committee
said that by last Saturday 10,335 cases of HIV had been recorded
while more than 1,890 people had contracted full-blown AIDS, or
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Of this, a further 1,008 people had died from the disease,
the official said.
On September 10 the committee reported that 10,119 people
had HIV while 1,240 were suffering from full-blown AIDS. It had
also said that a further 674 people had died by this time.
A country of 78 million people, Vietnam has 58 provinces and
three cities including the capital Hanoi, Danang in the centre
and southern Ho Chi Minh City which have province-like status.
The only location that remained free of HIV, which leads to
AIDS, was the remote northern province of Ha Giang on the
Sino-Vietnamese border, the official added.
At the beginning of 1996, Vietnam officially had 3,375
people infected with HIV.
But unofficial estimates put the number of people carrying
HIV as much higher in a country that has a thriving prostitution
industry and a growing drug-use problem.
The National AIDS Protection Committee plans to launch a
month-long awareness campaign on November 1, the official
Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.
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HIV SPREADS TO ALL BUT HANOI, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A growing number of people in
Vietnam have been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV), which has now spread to all but two of the country's
provinces, an official said on Thursday.
The official from the National AIDS Protection Committee
said statistics showed 10,119 cases of HIV, while more than
1,240 people had full-blown AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome.
She said a further 674 people had died from AIDS.
Vietnam has 58 provinces while the capital Hanoi, Danang in
the centre of the country and southern Ho Chi Minh City have
province-like status. The two provinces free of HIV are in
remote northern areas.
Unofficial estimates put the number of people carrying HIV,
which leads to AIDS, much higher.
At the beginning of 1996, Vietnam officially had 3,375
people infected with HIV.
The country, home to 78 million people, has a thriving
prostitution industry and a problem with drug use.
Although the government has launched public propaganda and
education campaigns to prevent AIDS, discussions of sexual
matters remain taboo across the largely rural country.
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