A project on HIV/AIDS treatment with the participation of health facilities and prisons was launched on the occasion, which comes under the sponsorship of the US-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).

Up to 98 percent of the 1,024 HIV carriers in the northern province of Bac Giang are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs covered by health insurance (SHI).

In addition to providing equipment to clinics, the project will arrange advanced refresher courses for medical workers at the grass-root level to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS testing and treatment.

Director of the provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Dang Thanh Minh said there were more than 3,270 HIV carriers in the province as of the end of February, nearly 1,980 of them still alive.

HIV patients need lifelong treatment that can be costly, and early and continuous treatment enables them to lead healthy lives and effectively eliminates the risk of transmission through sexual intercourses.

Vietnam is also a global leader in achieving viral suppression, at 93 percent. Viral suppression is a measurement of the degree to which the virus is in a person’s bloodstream.

When an HIV positive patient achieves viral suppression and has an undetectable viral load, not only do they have a significantly increased likelihood of improved health outcomes, but it also eliminates their likelihood of transmitting HIV.

Bac Giang is among localities with highest rate of compulsary social insurance coverage

(BGO) – The Vietnam Social Insurance has recently evaluated Bac Giang is one of six provinces and cities reaching the highest rate of compulsory social insurance (CSI) coverage across the nation. 

 

Bac Giang strives for high coverage of health insurance

(BGO) – The Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) on October 23 held a meeting to review two year implementation of the Direction No.08 dated on September 1, 2016 of Party Committee’s Standing Board  about boosting up the coverage of health insurance in the province in the period of 2016 – 2020 and launching the Action month to call for people of all strata to participate in health insurance in 2019. The event was chaired by Le Anh Duong, Vice Chairman of the PPC. 

 

Vietnam Health Insurance - steps in the right direction

At the Regional Social Security Forum for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI)’s initiative on ‘the application of information and technology (IT) in management, inspection and payment of health insurance’ was honoured with the ISSA’s special prize.

 

New decree issued on compulsory social insurance for foreign workers

The Government has officially issued a decree stipulating in details and guiding the enforcement of the Law on Social Insurance on compulsory social insurance for foreign employees in Vietnam, which will take effect on December 1 this year.

 

Efforts made to observe rights of foreign workers’ social insurance

Bilateral agreements for a new generation of social insurance policy have been negotiated to support foreign workers engaging in Vietnam’s social insurance scheme, said Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Dao Viet Anh.

 

Source: VNA