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The five-year US Agency for
International Development (USAID) HIV Workplace Project has helped more than
1,400 people infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS to find a job or run their
own businesses.
On June 21, the program held a
closing ceremony touting the impressive progress. However, USAID Viet Nam
Director Joakim Parker noted that, in spite of the program’s notable
achievements, Viet Nam was still likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal
target of reversing the epidemic.
The US $3 million project began in
2008 and expanded HIV prevention workplace-based activities, offering job
placement training and support to 118 enterprises in eight cities and
provinces, and training more than 100,000 people in HIV prevention. Vietnamese
micro-finance providers gave HIV-positive persons more than $100,000 in loans.
The Labour Ministry's Department for
Prevention of Social Evils Deputy Director Le Duc Hien declared that
international support for HIV/AIDS prevention likely would decrease. Hien
explained that the department was working on a national program to support
people with HIV/AIDS and was expected to seek government approval in 2013.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus.
To learn more about The Friends of
AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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