USAID’s Abt Associates and Vietnam’s northern province of Ha Nam signed Wednesday a memorandum of understanding on the implementation of “initiatives to prevent bird flu and epidemics” project. The project, to be carried out from Oct 1, 2009 to Sep 30, 2012, will help improve capability of state and private sectors to prevent bird flu, epidemics and infectious diseases in animals, the Thoi bao Kinh te newspaper reported. Since 2005, USAID has provided $27.5 million to help Vietnam to combat the spread of bird flu.
