In order to propagandize,
educate and raise the awareness of public security force in general and the
officers, lecturers, students of the PPA in particular in preventing HIV/AIDS,
on November 28th, at the PPA, the Ministry of Public Security held the
meeting to respond to the World AIDS Day and launching National Action Month
for HIV/AIDS prevention in 2013.
Attending the
meeting were Senior Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong, Executive member of
Central Party, Vice Minister of Public Security, Members of the National
Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control; Mr. Nguyen
Thanh Long, Vice Minister of Health; Leadership Representative of the General
Departments, Departments belong to the M.P.S; representative of mass union inside
and outside the Public Security Force, the international organizations USAID
and UNODC in Vietnam. As for the PPA were Members of the Party Committee,
Directorate, leaders of the functional units, representatives of Women's Union,
Labor Union, Youth Union and a large of the students of the Academy.
Mr Christopher Fontaine, Monitoring and
Evaluation Adviser of the UNAIDS in Vietnam
spoke at the meeting
The PPA’s student Bui Thien Huong spoke to
response to the World AIDS Day
In the meeting,
Major General Pham Quang Cu, Deputy Director General of General Department of Logistics
and Techniques presented a summary report of the HIV/AIDS prevention of the
M.P.S in 2013 and the direction of the work in 2014; and launched the program
in response to the World AIDS Day and National Action Month for HIV/AIDS
prevention in 2013. With the theme "Towards no new HIV infections", the
National Action Month aims to change HIV infection prevention behaviors and
increase access and provide HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services.
The delegates took photograph
To carry out
effectively the HIV/AIDS prevention in the community, for the target “no new
HIV cases”, the Steering Committee of the M.P.S required every units among the
Ministry of Public Security to focus on carrying out the following contents:
- Pushing up propagandizing,
educating to change the behaviors and raise the awareness about preventing HIV
transmission so that every police officer and students would become the
energetic propagator in participation in the movement “Whole people join in
HIV/AIDS prevention in the local community”.
- The units
among the Ministry of Public Security in collaboration with departments,
branches, social groups and civilian at all levels to actively preventing
HIV/AIDS.
- The hospitals,
clinics within the public security force provide services to ensure the rights
to get access the HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services of all
people; implement the duties of caring, advising, treating the HIV/AIDS infected
cases in jails, custodies, education schools under the control of the Ministry
of Public Security