The U.S. government has increased its support to Vietnam in its green growth strategy as part of efforts to help the Southeast Asian country to effectively combat climate change, said U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius. With the launch of the four...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed on Jan. 22 agreements to lend Vietnam $165 million to improve secondary education for ethnic minority students in poorest areas, and to upgrade rural infrastructure in central provinces. The first loan, worth...
From 2015 to 2020, the Community-based Poverty Reduction Project (CPRP) under the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will invest over USD33 million in 30 communes of 5 districts in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang....
About 15,000 units of blood, or 3,750 liters, were given at the Red Sunday Blood Donating Festival in 18 cities and provinces in Vietnam. However, Hanoi only contributed 1,000 units yesterday. (1 unit = 250ml). This year marked the seventh edition...
Vietnam’s government is looking for more official development assistance (ODA) and grants to carry out health projects, including those worth hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars to build new hospitals. The nation expects to seek loans from Japan,...
The Hanoi Health Department organized to launched two methadone treatment facilities at the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Centre in Ha Dong district and Hospital 09 in Thanh Tri district on January 27th. According to the guideline of the...
The national human vaccine program got off the ground with the signing of contracts between the program office and four vaccine makers at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 28. Speaking at the event, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said the signing...
The Ministry of Health’s Preventive Health Department has warned of a high risk of avian influenza A/H7N9 outbreaks in Vietnam. Tran Dac Phu, Director of the department said at a conference in Hanoi on January 28 that while there has been no report...
An outbreak of whooping cough has been deemed unlikely due to the high vaccination rate, according to the Ministry of Health’s response to recent recorded cases in Hanoi recently. The Hanoi-based National Hospital of Paediatrics has admitted nine...
A dozen water supply and wastewater treatment plants are scheduled to be built in the Mekong Delta region before 2020 to improve water supply and wastewater-treatment capacity across the region. The plans were discussed at a meeting with...
