Vietnam to Produce Vaccines on Industrial Scale

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a plan to invest in a core technology in order to produce vaccines while calling for social mobilization in the future. The statement was made in a recent meeting on producing vaccines held by the Ministry of Health. According to a report by the Ministry of Health, Vietnam is one of a few countries capable of producing vaccines for humans. Vaccines produced domestically serve not only the national expanded immunization campaign but also export activities. The country has so far produced 11 out of 12 types of vaccine using in its expanded vaccination program, which provides vaccinations for 1.7 million newborns annually. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized Vietnam’s vaccine management system as an internationally standardized one, which demonstrated that made-in-Vietnam vaccines were on par with those available around the world. (vnexpress.net Nov 25)