Tracking System Closes Gap Between HIV Diagnosis and Care in Vietnam

A client receives services at a district health clinic in Hai Phong.

Clinics can now follow up if patients fail to show up for treatment.

“I want my son to live a happy, normal life like all other children. And I’ll be there to watch him grow up.”

August 2015—When Hieu Trinh Thi married five years ago, she knew that her husband Truong might be HIV positive since he had been an intravenous drug user in the past. In Hai Phong, Vietnam, where the couple lives, 44 percent of people who inject drugs are infected with the virus.

Hieu knew too that she was at risk of contracting HIV from Truong, if she hadn’t already. But the abstract idea of the virus didn’t outweigh her love for the motorbike taxi driver, and the couple wed in the fall of 2010. Tiếp tục đọc “Tracking System Closes Gap Between HIV Diagnosis and Care in Vietnam”