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HCM City health conference focuses on maternal deaths
More than 2,000 local and international doctors and health experts yesterday shared their expertise about medical research and surgical techniques during a conference on reproductive health in HCM City. -
Action Month for Food Hygiene, Safety launched
A ceremony to launch ‘Action Month for Food Hygiene and Safety’ was held on April 11, Hanoi, by the Department of Food Hygiene and Safety. -
Post-natal healthcare service sees two years of success
Two years after its establishment, the Centre for Home Reproductive Healthcare Services has proven effective in helping the National Obstetrics Hospital handle its patient load. -
Health sector has plans to eradicate measles by 2012
Viet Nam plans to eliminate measles by 2012 with two injections for children between the ages of one and six, with supplemental vaccinations for high risk groups and areas. -
PM to revamp school healthcare
Viet Nam is determined to reduce the rate of students catching diseases at educational institutions nationwide. -
Health sector has plans to eradicate measles by 2012
Viet Nam plans to eliminate measles by 2012 with two injections for children between the ages of one and six, with supplemental vaccinations for high risk groups and areas. -
ADB loan to improve VN food safety
A US$95 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will be used to improve the safety, quality and quantity of Viet Nam’s commercial food crops, and provide alternative and clean energy supply to households through biogas development. -
Health and lifestyle TV channel makes its debut
The Vietnam Television in co-ordination with the Ministry of Public Health and the S-Media Company on August 6 launched a new subscription television channel - the first ever health and lifestyle channel in Vietnam. -
Plastic surgeon’s 40-year legacy lives on
Emily Barksy saw tears in the eyes of one of the nurses who met her and her father when they visited Ho Chi Minh City-based National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology (NHO) 10 days ago. -
Free HIV/AIDS treatment clinic opens in Hai Phong
A clinic dedicated to providing free HIV/AIDS consultancy and treatment has been inaugurated in Hai An district of northern port city of Hai Phong. -
State leader calls for more care to children with HIV/AIDS
The Vice State President has requested the Ministry of Health continue expanding the provision of health insurance to children living with HIV/AIDS at a time when the rate of HIV child carriers in the country is on the rise. -
Vaccination programme improves children’s health
The expanded programme of immunisation (EPI), which has covered up to 95 percent of the nation’s under-five children, has contributed greatly to reducing by half the infant and under-five mortality rates. -
Vietnam makes impressive progress in child care
Vietnam made impressive results in improving health care for children over the past two decades, said international experts. -
UN project on drugs and HIV control for ethnic minorities launched
A project on drug abuse prevention and HIV control for Vietnamese ethnic minorities was launched in Hanoi on January 29 by the State Committee for Ethnic Minorities and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. -
Malnutrition rate still high in Vietnam
Vietnam has reduced the malnutrition rate among its children to 21.2% from 23.4% in 2007, equivalent to around 150,000 children, said the Vice Chairman of the National Nutrition Steering Committee Nguyen Cong Khan at a conference on nutrition in Hanoi on January 24. -
Thai youths were at risk of catching HIV as many had their first sexual encounter at 15 and nearly half did not use condoms, the Public Health Ministry revealed Thursday.
Recent reports indicated many youths did not use conฌdoms due to faith in their partner and the "myth" HIV/Aids was only spread by prostitutes, a spokesman said. -
Support centres to help parents of children infected with HIV
the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS sufferers in the outskirts of Ha Noi is a woman who at more that 80 patiently feeds her emaciated son with his every spoon of soup -
Viet Nam moves to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission
Viet Nam has set the target of providing preventive treatment for all pregnant women who test positive for HIV in order to reduce the rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission to 10 percent of all births by HIV-infected mothers by 2010. -
Positive effort to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma
Viet Nam has seen a considerable increase over the last few years in the number of people living with HIV who have become actively involved in prevention, care and treatment activities, participants at a seminar in Ha Noi said on Monday. -
TB and HIV data needed for diagnosis
Viet Nam needs to set up a system to obtain data for research of tuberculosis so the disease can be diagnosed as early as possible, according to an epidemiologist and professor from the University of Texas. -
Children will actively respond HIV/AIDS
A national forum with the theme: children’s voice and HIV/AIDS will take place in August to continue to share and solve related issues of children infected with HIV/AIDS. -
Men take responsibility for partner’s reproductive health
Vinh, Hanh, Sinh and Toan form an unlikely, nervous group in the heat of a small waiting area at a health clinic in Viet Nam’s Song Hong (Red River) Delta region. -
Nation aims for more healthy infants
A programme to tackle stillbirths and maternal deaths during childbirth is being implemented in the country as Viet Nam strives to attain the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by 2015. -
Viet Nam needs more contraceptives
Viet Nam needs to invest over VND970 billion (US$60.6 million) to adequately supply the country with much needed contraceptives, according to the Committee for Population, Family and Children. -
Drugs – shortest way to be infected with AIDS
Over the past recent years, there has been a distinct increase in the number of young people addicted to drugs. Drugs have become a global risk, a disaster for every family and causes for crime and , social disorder. Drugs effect health and are a short bridge to death through AIDS. -
Nearly 1,000 pregnant mothers in Thanh Hoa participated in the workshop “Healthy gestation and healthy foetus”
From 25-26 June 2007, Thanh Hoa WU in coordination with Family & Welfare newspaper, United Pharma Company - Vietnam, Reproductive Health Care Dept. (Ministry of Health) organized workshop “Healthy gestation and healthy foetus” in 2 districts of Yen Dinh & Trieu Son, Thanh Hoa province. -
Government works hard against HIV/AIDS
The Vietnamese Government is pumping more money into the fight against HIV/AIDS and has issued a series of documents aimed at bolstering care and treatment for HIV/AIDS patients. -
Women can turn the tide in HIV/AIDS epidemic
Keynote address of Dr Margaret Chan - Director-General of the World Health Organization At the International Women’s Summit: Women’s Leadership on HIV and AIDS Nairobi, Kenya, 5 July 2007 -
Country’s rural teenagers to receive lessons in sex education
The number of teens having unprotected sex is higher in rural areas than in cities, according to a report from the reproductive health project for adolescents. -
Camellia club provides help with HIV/AIDS struggle
New mother Pham Thi Khuyen, from Hai Phong City, was devastated when her two year marriage was rocked with the news that her four-month old baby had tested positive for HIV/AIDS.