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to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
Vietnam launched a campaign to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in the country’s southern Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, the government website reported.
The one-month campaign, themed in “HIV test for mother Health for child”, aims to encourage pregnant women to take HIV test to prevent the transmission of the virus from them to their children.
Expecting mothers are advised to go to 225 prevention centers across the country for HIV test and being provided with medicine to prevent HIV transmission in case test shows they are positive with the virus.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong said the HIV epidemic is gradually contained in Vietnam. However, the number of women, especially pregnant women, found infected with HIV is increasing.
Therefore, the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission is of significance, said Trong.
About 6,000 pregnant women are tested positive to HIV in Vietnam every year. If no preventive measures are adopted, 35 percent of them will transmit the virus to their babies.
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