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Tue 03 Mar 2010Irish aid project discovers high rate of hepatitis B in Vietnam
A MAJOR aid initiative, backed by the Government here, has helped to identify an unusually high rate of hepatitis B infection in Vietnam. The research programme has also established that HIV infection in the southeast Asian country has yet to spread significantly to the wider population.
The state-of-the-art diagnostic facility, developed by the Ireland-Vietnam Blood-Borne Virus Initiative (IVVI), will be formally opened at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) in Hanoi on St Patrick’s Day by junior minister Conor Lenihan.
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