Representatives from the Da Nang Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Viet Nam Health Improvement Project (VNHIP) recently signed a new agreement on improving healthcare services for kids with HIV/AIDS in the city over the 2017-2021 period.

Representatives of the Department and the VNHIP at the signing ceremony (Source: VNA)

The project aims to provide scholarships, school facilities, healthcare, and life-skills training for the children, as well as to create a means of livelihood for their families.

As planned, the project will focus on the first 50 kids and young people under 25 who have HIV/AIDS, as well as their families.

The city now has 100 kids living with HIV/AIDS.

The city is one of the leading localities nationwide to have made the great efforts to control the number of new HIV cases as it controlled a ratio of 0.15% of HIV cases among the population since 2008.

VNHIP has been working in the central region since 2008 to ensure that the most disadvantaged and marginalised people have equal access to good-quality healthcare and health education services.

Viet Nam targets to reduce the number of people with HIV to 0.3% by 2020.

(Source: VNA/ Da Nang Today)