Health Dept plans to end transmission of HIV, syphilis from mother to child by 2020

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BANGKOK, 30 November 2018 (NNT) - The Department of Health plans to end the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child by 2020. 

Health Department Director General Phanphimol Wipulakorn said Thailand was awarded by the World Health Organization in 2016 for reducing maternal transmissions of HIV to less than two percent. 

In 2018, only 1.68 percent was found and Thailand can maintain the quality of the operation to date. It was certified by the Global Validation Advisory Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, in June. 

Thailand will be able to end the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child by 2030 and to reduce it to less than one percent by 2020.

 

 

-- nnt 2018-12-01

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand will be able to end the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child by 2030 and to reduce it to less than one percent by 2020.

So why does the headline state they plan to end the transmission of these diseases by 2020 ?

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand will be able to end the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child by 2030 and to reduce it to less than one percent by 2020.

Another case of "same same but different"? Looks like the jobless Mr. He Jiankui found a new place to work. I wonder how much they pay him to make his science a Thai one.

 

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