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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.