Vietnam’s General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health has warned that dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease, is making a comeback across the world this year and Vietnam has recorded an increasing number of...
Efforts made by Vietnam to renovate its health care system were highlighted during a speech delivered by Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at the opening ceremony of the 68th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva taking place from May 18-...
Demand for anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS continues to grow but the State's budget allocation for purchasing ARVs is limited, said Bui Duc Duong, deputy director of the Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (...
Some 1.2 million people have opted out of medical insurance due to complex new regulations in the adjusted Medical Insurance Law, an official has admitted, and this means the Government will miss its target of 75% of the population having medical...
A new law was needed to tackle water pollution a workshop has been told in Hanoi. The new law, together with another call for the National Assembly to exercise its supervision of the water environment, came after a health ministry report that each...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment together with relevant ministries and sectors have quickly completed Vietnam’s draft report on intended nationally-determined contributions (INDC) to coping with climate change. The ministry, in...
Authorities and scientists gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on May 18 to launch a project on enhancing the accuracy of climate anticipation. The two day event is co-organized by the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment under...
The “Building disaster resilient societies in Vietnam (Phase II)”, project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is now in its second year. The 3-year project, implemented since August 2013, has an overall goal of strengthening...
The World Bank and U.N. Development Program (UNDP) have called on Vietnam to strengthen its response to climate change by having strategic investments toward a low-carbon future amid worse climate change-caused consequences in the country. The...
Six Vietnamese students have won three gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal at the Asian Pacific Informatics, The Thanh Nien Newspaper quoted the Ministry of Education and Training on May 20. Among the medalists, five are from the HUS...
