The community-based health care and first aid project has helped improve health and self-recovery ability of the poor and vulnerable people in Ba Thuoc district, central Thanh Hoa province, according to the Vietnam Red Cross. The project, sponsored...
Ethnic groups with a population of less than 5,000 each have been given a better education in the past five years, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET). The project on education development for ethnic minority groups basically...
Many countries and organizations have planned to stop providing official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam, imposing challenges for Vietnam to seek other funds for its development, state media reported, citing a Vietnamese ministry. The UK is...
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided Vietnam with a total $283 million in aid in 2015, it was announced at a conference in Hanoi on December 23 to sum up NGOs work and lay out tasks for next year. The amount of aid was less than the $304...
More than 1,400 Vietnamese people have registered to donate organs and tissue on December 19 in Hanoi, setting a new record in Vietnam, state media reported. The record was made at a festival entitled Joining Hands for Life. Organ donation is a...
Vietnam’s healthcare is expected to grow 10% a year by 2024 and it still remains an attractive market, according to a market research specialist of Kantar Worldpanel Vietnam, state media reported. Healthcare spending is expected to more than double...
Each year, 5,664 new cases of cervical cancer are recorded in Vietnam and nearly 2,500 women have died of the disease, said Luu Thi Hong, Director of the Maternal and Child Health Department under the Ministry of Health. Health experts said cervical...
Vietnam has made strides in poverty reduction, illiteracy eradication and especially maternal and child mortality, according to Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, country director at the United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF). Children have grown up healthy...
Vietnam has suspended the administration of an infant vaccine nationwide after hundreds of parents, trying to secure shots for their children, caused a chaotic scene in front of a medical center in Hanoi. Tran Dac Phu, head of the Preventive Health...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called for tighter food safety management during a meeting on December 25 in Hanoi to review food management in 2015 and set tasks for 2016. The Deputy PM, who heads the National Inter-sector Steering...
