The World Bank has released a map indicating poverty data in Vietnam, zoning poor regions based on indicators of income rate, employment, school attendance, nutrition, and sanitation. The data loaded on the new MapVietnam website at www.worldbank....
Program 135 designed for extremely-disadvantaged communes has brought new looks to impoverished communes, but drawbacks remain, Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Affairs Giang Seo Phu told the National Assembly Standing Committee during...
The Luxembourg government will grant EUR2 million to a project worth EUR2.3 million to improve surgical capacity to manage tuberculosis-related and other pulmonary diseases in Vietnam. The project aims to advance the country’s surgical system...
Four Vietnamese companies are taking steps under a project to produce at least five vaccines, including the combined 5-in-1 and 6-in-1 vaccines, in order to be more proactive in ensuring sufficient supply of vaccines to meet local demand. This...
Vietnam has not uncovered any new bird flu strains or mutations that increase toxicity or are drug resistant, said the Preventative Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health. Strain A/H3 prevailed in the first two months of 2015 (77.8%),...
Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam have promoted HIV prevention in the Southeast Asian country through culture and consultation activities, as part of social charity programs to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the bilateral normalization....
The wet weather currently blanketing the country was making it easier for bacteria to spread, resulting in an increase of respiratory and digestive diseases, and chicken-pox among children in both northern and southern areas, according to doctors....
The Ministry of Health has announced that it will inspect vaccination activities across the nation in efforts to improve their quality and ensure that all children are vaccinated safely, effectively and timely. According to a written announcement...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has set up 11 working teams to supervise vaccination at all levels and localities nationwide as part of its efforts to improve the efficiency of the national expanded immunization program and regain public...
Concentrated animal feed operations (CAFO) are better equipped than household-run livestock farms, but many of them lack waste management systems, causing serious pollution in rural areas, according to the Institute of Policy and Strategy for...
