US Plans US$100Mln Fund for Vietnam Next Year
The United States Government is planning to provide around US$100 million in non-refundable aid for Vietnam in 2008, the US Embassy in Vietnam said August 21.
The grant will go to HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities, economic development and reform enhancement.
In early August, the embassy also announced that the US will donate US$65 million to Vietnam’s HIV/AIDS prevention this year.
The funding will focus on three fields of curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS in community, providing medicines and care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH), particularly orphans.
Vietnam became the 15th focus country of the PEPFAR program in June 2004. The program had already allocated nearly $80 million to fight HIV in Vietnam by late 2006. (Liberated Saigon, Vietnam Panorama)
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