The Vietnamese government kicked off a reproductive healthcare project that costs $3.1 million funded by the European Council (EC) in Hue city on April 5. The project aims to improve reproductive health services for poor people in Vietnam and Cambodia, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said. In Vietnam, the U.K. organization of Marie Stopes International will join hands with the Ministry of Health to carry out the project in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue and the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long from now up to 2012. Vietnam targets to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75% before 2015.
