Nearly 8,000 people participated in a walk for Agent Orange (AO) victims at the Dam Sen Park in Ho Chi Minh City on August 2 as the designated date for supporting sufferers (August 10) approaches. President Nguyen Van Rinh of the Vietnam Association...
A group of American volunteer doctors carried out medical examinations on 3,500 poor people during their 11-day stay in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang. The doctors, who come from the Good Samaritan Medical organization, also helped...
A recent diphtheria outbreak in Central Quang Nam province has been successfully contained with no new cases reported and those who had suffered from the disease recovered. According to the Department of Preventative Health under the Ministry of...
The northern mountainous province of Son La disbursed nearly VND90 billion ($4.12 million) in the first six months to invest in projects assisting ethnic minorities. In 2015, Son La received VND50 billion ($2.29 million) from the State budget to...
The northern mountainous province of Bac Kan has disbursed $4.9 million of the $5.7 million in assistance from non-governmental organisations (NGO) in the past five years, noted a provincial leader at a recent meeting with a working group from the...
The Vietnamese government has approved the sub-programs in the “Risk Mitigation and Management of Human Health Threats along Animal Value Chains” projects which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved a range of contents for climate change response in 2016 with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The...
As much as 90% of Vietnamese population lack iodine, which is the main cause for thyroid diseases, according to a survey by the Ministry of Health (MoH). Doctor Dinh Van Truc, deputy head of the Surgery Department of the National Hospital of...
In a rare move that will bring greater accountability into Vietnam's heath care sector, the Ministry of Health has proposed a new rule that will hold the government accountable for adverse complications from vaccination. The rule, expected to take...
Vietnam is one of the nine countries in the Southeast Asia having the highest rate of hepatitis, with 10% of the country’s 90-million population having hepatitis B and between 2%-6% having hepatitis C, according to statistics from the World Health...
