Nearly 60 children of under 15 years old in Vat Lai Commune, Ba Vi District, northern Ha Tay Province have symptoms of delta myasthenia like children in Nghi Xuan, central Ha Tinh Province. Haft of them are students of the Vat Lai Secondary School.

The national extended vaccination programme will get VND117bil (US$7.3mil) from the State and US$4mil in foreign aid, enough for 2006, said representative, Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Vietnam is the best example in implementing the anti-tuberculosis program.

All children at the Tan Binh Charity House (Ho Chi Minh City) have had bad luck since their births. They were infected with HIV from their parents and most of them were abandoned, then later adopted by the House staff when many orphanages in the region found them in the maternity hospitals.

The family of LeThi Theu, a Co Tu ethnic woman, in Par Nghi II village, A Ngo commune, A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province has had nine members volunteering to give their blood in the past years.

An ongoing community health care project organised by Johnson & Johnson Co. has offered two new programmes in Ha Noi.

On the occasion of the 51 anniversary of the Vietnam Day for Medical Doctors (27 Feb. 1955 – 27 Feb. 2006), the People’s Committee and the Health Department of Lam Dong province, at the decision by the Chairman of the State, organized a ceremony on 25 Feb.

The Viet Nam Red Cross has recently launched a project on "Supporting Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims in the Central Highlands and southern Tay Ninh province" for the 2006-2010 period.

Marta Santos Pais, Director of the Innocenti Research Centre of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has praised Vietnam's achievements in caring for and protecting children over the years.

Vietnamese now have an average lifespan of 71.3 years as compared to the target of 71 years set for 2010, said the Health Ministry on Jan. 2.