The Government has decided to allocate 25 billion VND from the central budget to support 41 provinces facing difficulties in preventing prostitution in 2012. This is the initial amount of 600 billion VND for the entire Action Program on Prostitution Prevention for the period 2011-2015. Mr. Le Duc Hien, Deputy Director of the Department of Social Evils Prevention, Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs informed the press on the morning of March 1, 2012.

Currently, according to incomplete statistics, the number of prostitutes with records is 14,802, much smaller than the actual number. Nationwide, there are over 73,000 sensitive service establishments with over 48,000 service staff, of which nearly 3,000 establishments and over 3,200 female employees are suspected of prostitution. Notably, prostitution has spread to the highlands, remote areas, and borders. Many towns and villages that were once peaceful now also have this social evil.

According to the report of the Department of Social Crime Prevention, many professional prostitution rings operate very sophisticatedly, they thoroughly take advantage of high technologies such as the internet, create websites, comment forums, introduce prostitution activities with hundreds of addresses introducing prostitutes, etc. It is worth noting the "younger" situation of subjects participating in prostitution. Some models, singers, actors, students, and pupils also participate in prostitution.

Many sensitive service businesses are suspected of prostitution.

Mr. Le Duc Hien said that in reality, prostitution rings have been formed in the form of "contracts", focusing on a number of educated prostitutes with good looks and diplomatic skills to sign disguised labor contracts with "tycoons" who are business owners or wealthy people under the title of "secretaries, assistants" for short term to legalize business trips in and out of the country but in fact are contracts for buying and selling sex, etc. In border areas adjacent to China and Cambodia, the prostitution situation tends to increase and become more and more complicated due to the strong development of entertainment services at the border gates, attracting many female employees from other places.

In 2012, the Department of Social Crime Prevention set out 9 basic objectives in the work of preventing prostitution. Notably, it was to build 50 pilot models on prostitution prevention; reduce 30% of the number of communes and wards with key prostitution problems; educate, treat and carry out support activities in appropriate forms for 100% of the subjects with newly arising management records.../.

According to VOV