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The letter did not provide detailed information about “support, treatment and prevention
of HIV and TB in detention centers,” or how the GF would ensure the Vietnamese
government abided by this limitation.
The World Bank
Since 2005, the World Bank has funded Vietnamese government authorities to provide HIV
prevention, treatment, and care in drug detention centers. The project grant agreement
(2005) provides $35 million to Vietnamese (mostly provincial) government authorities, of
which $1.5 million has been used in drug detention centers. 289
In correspondence to Human Rights Watch, the World Bank’s country director noted:
The World Bank targeted the centers because avoiding them would have
resulted in serious public health risk, including many more infections and
deaths. The overriding factor in our decision was the risk to the people in
these centers and their right to lifesaving prevention and treatment. 290
From 2005 to 2010 the World Bank project funded HIV clinics in three centers in what it described
as a pilot program. 291 Under this component, funds were provided recruiting temporary
consultants (doctors and nurses) and renovating health clinics and medical equipment. As a
separate component of the same project, government authorities in 20 provinces were given
funds to implement various HIV-related services in drug detention centers. 292
289 Development Grant Agreement (Vietnam HIV/AIDS Prevention Project) between Socialist Republic of
Vietnam and International Development Association,” IDA Grant Number 152- VN, May 26, 2005, Schedule 2
“Description of the project.” Project documents available via:
http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?Projectid=P082604&theSitePK=40941&pagePK=64283627
&menuPK=228424&piPK=73230 (accessed July 28, 2011); Letter from Victoria Kwarka, Vietnam country
coordinator, The World Bank, to Human Rights Watch, June 9, 2011.
290 Ibid.
291 The three centers under this component of the project are centers in Hanoi, Hai Phong and Khanh Hoa. See, for
example, [World Bank] Procurement Plan 2007, Vietnam HIV/AIDS Prevention Project, document 41502, p. 5.
http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=51351038&piPK=51351152&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=
51351213&query=&fromDate=&docType=4&IRISF=&docTitle=&author=&aType=&owner=&origu=&colTitle=&display
Order=DOCNA%2CDOCDT%2CREPNB%2CDOCTY&callBack=&siteName=PROJECTS&sType=&report=&loan=&trustfun
d=&projid=P082604&credit=&sourceCitation=&projectId=P082604&sortDesc=DOCDT&dAtts=DOCDT%2CDOCNA%
2CREPNB%2CDOCTY%2CLANG%2CVOLNB%2CREPNME&startPoint=0&pageSize=10 (accessed July 28, 2011).
292 Development Grant Agreement (Vietnam HIV/AIDS Prevention Project) between Socialist Republic of Vietnam
and International Development Association,” IDA Grant Number 152- VN, May 26, 2005, Annex to Schedule 2;
Letter from Victoria Kwarka, Vietnam country coordinator, The World Bank, to Human Rights Watch, June 9, 2011.
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