A pregnant women living with HIV getting a routine check-up at a hospital in Viet Nam

At the request of Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, a team of international health experts from UNICEF, WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control visited Viet Nam from 13 – 17 June, 2011 to conduct a joint review of the national strategy on the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. The team developed a set of recommendations that will help Viet Nam accelerate access to high quality services to reduce the rate of mother to child transmission of HIV to less than 5% by 2015 while ensuring a continuum of care and treatment for mothers and children living with the disease.

In Viet Nam, the HIV/AIDS epidemic remains concentrated in key affected populations with HIV prevalence in ante natal clinics at 0.26%. In 2010, there were an estimated 3,743 HIV infected mothers. The review team's visit coincided with the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS in the previous week in New York, where it was agreed to push towards eliminating new HIV infections among children in the next five years across the globe.

See also the UN Viet Nam fact sheet on:

•  Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) and Children affected by HIV

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