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Home page  About CSIS Programs HIV/AIDS Task Force Region: Vietnam
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Region: Vietnam
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Vietnam is of considerable interest to the CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS because its HIV/AIDS epidemic is at an early point, with a promising potential for effective nation-wide prevention efforts among populations of injection-drug users, sex workers and men having sex with men. The CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS is now paying increased attention to HIV prevention issues as they are addressed within individual countries and by the international community.
The Task Force recently returned from a mission to Vietnam from January 8-13, 2006, which was led by former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson and included a diverse group of U.S. and international experts and officials. The delegation had the goals of (1) acquiring knowledge to shape policy discussions in Washington; (2) encouraging greater harmonization among external groups working in Vietnam; (3) promoting Vietnamese-U.S. linkages, including follow-on opportunities for hosting Vietnamese officials at CSIS activities in Washington.
The delegation met with representatives from NGOs and governmental organizations, UN agencies, people living with HIV/AIDS and uninfected people at risk of infection.
CSIS will publish a set of findings and recommendations from this delegation directed to policymakers in the U.S. Government and non-governmental U.S. donor organizations at the Task Force conference July 13 entitled: "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership on HIV/AIDS."
CSIS hosted a launch of the interim delegation report in Washington, DC in the Spring of 2006, sponsored by Senators Richard Lugar (R-IN) and honorary Task Force co-chair John Kerry (D-MA). Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, and Tommy G. Thompson, former Health and Human Services Secretary spoke at this event. |
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