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Vietnam's Assembly Hears Report on HIV/AIDS, Jobs for Drug Addicts

Posted on: Saturday, 8 October 2005, 12:00 CDT

Excerpt from report in English by Vietnamese news agency VNA website

Hanoi, 8 October: Working to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS is the responsibility of each individual, family and society as a whole, stressed the National Assembly's Standing Committee at its session on 6 October.

Debating a draft law on HIV/AIDS prevention, all opinions shared the view that aside from professional preventive measures, social measures are also important in the fight against HIV/AIDS. They underlined interference measures that can make a breakthrough in limiting the disease's spread, such as the distribution of condoms and disposable injection needles, as well as measures to strengthen inter-branch coordination, to encourage the community's participation and to raise people's awareness of fighting HIV/AIDS.

Many deputies spoke of the need to intensify education of the epidemic through the mass media in the context of the current HIV/ AIDS boom. [Passage omitted]

Regarding the generation of jobs for detoxified drug addicts in Ho Chi Minh City, Deputy Minister Trao said the city is upgrading and building 20 rehabilitation centres, and boosting the construction of the Nhi Xuan Industrial Zone, so that by the end of this year or early 2006, the IZ will create jobs for around 3,000 drug addicts who have kicked their bad habits.

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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