Young people and juvenile will be given priority in a national information and education programme that aims to change the public's attitudes and behaviours in preventing HIV/AIDS by 2010.
The Health Ministry held a conference in Hanoi on March 20 to discuss measures to implement the programme.
According to the Department of AIDS Prevention, as many as 95 percent of the HIV-positive cases in Vietnam are people aged between 15-49, half of whom are aged between 20-29, and about 8 percent are teenagers.
The conference stressed that all efforts to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vietnam should target not only the high-risk group but everybody, particularly young and juvenile people.
By December 31, 2006, Vietnam had detected 116,565 HIV-positive cases, of whom 20,195 had developed full-blown AIDS resulting in 11,802 deaths.
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