Caitlin Marie Unites, deputy director of the Office of Health under the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been honoured for her practical contributions to health care and especially HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Vietnam. (Photo: Ministry of Health)
At the ceremony, Tuyen praised Unites for making practical contributions to Vietnam’s development and HIV/AIDS control in particular.
Over the past four years, Unites has lobbied the US Government to maintain financial and technical support for healthcare improvements and HIV/AIDS prevention in Vietnam, he said.
Together with US agencies, he said the USAID official has called on the US Government to donate more than 39 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam since 2020.
In addition, she has worked closely with USAID Washington to lobby the APRA Foundation and partners to assist Vietnam in purchasing anti-COVID equipment such as oxygen meters, personal protective equipment (PPE), N95 masks, syringes and other medical supplies.
The USAID official for her part thanked the Ministry of Health of Vietnam for giving her the chance to increase close cooperation in healthcare activities in general as well as in HIV/AIDS prevention and control in particular.
