These figures show a sharp decrease over last year, announced Le Nhan Tuan, Director of the Hanoi Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at a press briefing on November 29. 

To achieve this success, the city’s departments and related agencies have trained good staff to care for HIV/AIDS patients living in the community healthcare centres, said Mr.Tuan. 

Mass organisations including the Youth Union, the Women’s Union, and Trade Union are actively engaged in different activities to raise public awareness of the need to prevent and control the deadly disease. 

Hanoi will continue to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS through the media and promote other programmes on using condoms, and clean injection needles as well as international projects on HIV/AIDS prevention and control.