Many activities will take place across Vietnam during the National Month of Action for HIV/AIDS Control, which begins on Nov. 10.

A US-funded outpatient clinic for people living with HIV/AIDS opened in district 9, Ho Chi Minh City , on November 5.

In bringing together people living with HIV/AIDS and their families, a community-based social organisation called Tre Xanh (Green Bamboo) is hoping to offer these people a new chance at life.

The US Embassy on Oct. 7 announced three new grants totalling more than 28.5 million USD for projects aimed at combating the spread of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam.

To accelerate the programme to change behaviour and increase intervention to reduce harmful affect for high risk groups is a good way to face the complicated development of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Deputy Health Minister Trinh Quan Huan suggested.

The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism and the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee on Monday signed a ministerial plan which aims to mobilise the whole nation to be involved in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

On October 6, Vietnam called upon the whole nation to become involved in HIV/AIDS control and prevention activities from now until 2012.

A project to support home- and community-based care for HIV positive people in Duong Kinh Precinct and Kien Thuy District, northern port Hai Phong City, was launched on Sept. 29.

Experts and policy-makers from APEC and international organisations discussed policies to prevent HIV/AIDS among migrant workers at a seminar that opened here Thursday.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has largely funded a project on HIV/AIDS control among young people in the northern province of Hai Duong, aimed at reducing the infections growth rate to 0.3 percent by 2010.