By the end of August, 1,641 HIV-infected people have so far been diagnosed in Da Nang.  924 of them are from the city itself, with the remainder from other locations nearby.  708 of them have developed full-blown AIDS and 407 have died, of whom 382 were from Da Nang itself. 

Practising unsafe sex is the main cause of the city’s HIV transmission cases.  There is an increasing number of local women infected with HIV, and cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission are being surveyed.  There has been a significant decrease since 2006 in the number of cases of HIV transmission through unsafe intravenous drug use. 

The city is striving to reach a target of controlling the number of new HIV infection cases at not more than 0.15% of the city’s population by 2020.  In particular, the number of new HIV infections caused by drug use injections is targeted to decrease by 70% in 2015 and 90% in 2020, as compared with the 2010 figures.  The targets for the decrease in the number of HIV transmission cases compared with  2010 have been set at 60% by 2015 and 80% by 2020.