US funds Hanoi’s new methadone, HIV clinics

US funds Hanoi’s new methadone, HIV clinics

I would be really interested to hear you guys opinions on this. The US is funding methadone clinics in Vietnam and most of us here can't even get good treatment, there aren't enough methadone clinics around so that most of us have to drive an hour or more round trip to get to a methadone clinic and most of us are certainly not getting FREE treatment.

Of course on the flip side of that, this is a country who also has addicts that could use MMT and therfore the US funding their clinics are the only way they will ever get any kind of adequate treatment.

So let's hear what you guys have to say about this.

Hanoi opened its third methadone clinic Monday and an HIV outpatient facility Tuesday with financial and technical support from the US.

The methadone clinic is the 13th in the country, all of which receive technical and financial assistance from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

The US government has assisted Vietnam in implementing methadone treatment, which has been used for more than four decades to treat opioid-related addiction in Western countries.

The clinic was inaugurated in Son Tay District in the presence of US Ambassador Michael Michalak and Vietnam’s Health Ministry senior officials.

The HIV clinic, which opened Tuesday, in Soc Son District will provide HIV patients in the region with quality clinical care and treatments. It will also offer free and confidential counseling and testing.

Both clinics are supported by the US Agency for International Development.


This comes from the THANH NIEN news and the original link is

http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/20101202140338.aspx