On April 23, Kim Dong Publishing House in Hanoi announced they would be distributing one million free books to poor children across the country, fulfilling the desire of every child to read a story book. This task will be fulfilled under a program...
Over 500 people of the three villages with special economic difficulty in Tam Chung commune, Muong Lat district, Thanh Hoa province have received free medical checkups and medicines provided by Defense Economic Corps 5 of Military Zone 4. Recently,...
The Vietnamese government will spend VND5.03 trillion ($238 million) on the national sustainable poverty reduction program in 2013, versus VND5.06 trillion last year, state media reported. The Central Steering Committee for Sustainable Poverty...
A delegation of doctors from Hung Vuong Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, in association with the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Central Committee and some sponsors, provided free health check-ups and medicines to 500 needy ethnic people in Kon Ray District,...
The Ministry of Health and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on April 23 launched Circular No. 7 defining the criteria, responsibilities and duties of village-based health workers, including ethnic minority midwives. According to Deputy...
The European Commission’s Agriculture and Rural Development and the EU’s Delegation to Vietnam on Apr 22 held a seminar on Geographical Indications (GI) program, state media reported. The one-day event in Hanoi attracted participation of Vietnamese...
Vietnam has reported one more death of A/H1N1 influenza virus, the third case this year after two deaths were recorded in April. The latest victim, a 12-year-old girl, from the central province of Thanh Hoa died of respiratory and multi-organ...
Malaria control remains a big challenge in Vietnam as there are nearly 20 million people living in areas at risk of malaria, equal to 22.5% of the national population, said Nguyen Van Binh, head of the Preventive Health Department under the Ministry...
Vietnam April 24 kick-started a project to develop healthcare services on coastal and island areas nationwide with a total investment of VND8.2 trillion ($390.48 million) in the 2013-2020 period, state media reported. As planned, four emergency...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has agreed to provide EUR6.44 million in aid for a project on building a clean water supply plant in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre. An agreement to this effect was signed in Ben Tre on April 23 in the...
