国内英语新闻:Vietnam urges int'l support to help end AIDS pandemic by 2030

HANOI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam urged international support to help end AIDS pandemic by 2030, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan said on Friday.

Doan made the remarks at a meeting Michel Sidibe, executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS ( UNAIDS) and under-secretary-general of the UN in Hanoi.

Doan urged Sidibe to continue coordination and dialogue with the international community to support Vietnam to implement a strategy to end AIDS pandemic by 2030, focusing on prevention.

Sidibe said his current visit to Vietnam aims to further boost the program of prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS in the country, as well as mobilize domestic and international resources to held Vietnam achieve the UN goal.

The UNAIDS official also called Vietnam to continue investment in preventing and combating HIV in a bid to reach the goal of ending AIDS by 2030.