Regional AlertHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam records first death of HIV-positive man with monkeypox October 28, 2023By MBDS Team25 Oct 2023. The Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City said that a 30-year-old male patient hailing from Long An Province died of monkeypox (mpox) in the late stage of immunodeficiency at the Hospital of Tropical Diseases.