(VOV) – Over 800 delegates assembled on September 12 at a national scientific conference on HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in Can Tho City.
Organisers of the conference received over 114 submissions out of which 55 were selected for presentation at the colloquium. The chosen reports focused new infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS and paediatrics.
Dr. Pham Manh Hung, President of the Vietnam General Medical Association, said over the recent past, the fight against HIV/AIDS in Vietnam has made remarkable achievements.
With the lowest rate of HIV infections in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has become a bright spot in the battle against HIV/AIDS, which has not gone unnoticed by the international community, he noted.
National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases Director Nguyen Van Kinh in turn said new infectious diseases around the globe are on the upswing, particularly noting the Ebola epidemic in African countries.
As of September 5, 2014, 3,944 cases of Ebola have been reported, including 2,097 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Additionally, the world is facing a respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemic in the Middle East. Kinh pointed out that Vietnam is currently wrangling with dengue fever, measles, and hand-foot-mouth disease, which are on the rise, raising many challenges for Vietnam’s health sector.
The health sector in recent times has worked painstakingly to control infectious diseases, Kinh said.
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