World Vision International in Vietnam is ready to fund $1.5 million to improve the care for children, especially the most vulnerable, in the northern province of Hoa Binh in the next three years, state media reported. In a recent ceremony held in...
Vietnam has reported an alarming rate of antibiotic resistance, doctors said at a conference in Hanoi last week. Nguyen Vu Trung, deputy director of the Central Tropical Diseases Hospital, pointed out that that the resistance rate to carbapenems,...
Vietnam will keep using Quinvaxem or the 5-in-1 vaccine in the national Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) after health authorities announced that the recent death of a baby just minutes after an injection in the northern province of Hai Duong...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has issued a warning about the risk of diphtheria outbreaks from Laos through the border into the country as a third of 17 Lao provinces have reported diphtheria infections from June to October. As of October 27, Laos...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health on Nov 4 said that the number of dengue fever cases is considerably reducing day by day as a rapid downward trend in dengue cases is being witnessed. However, the disease development is still complicated in the South...
Over 5,000 Vietnamese women are diagnosed with cervical cancer annually, medical experts said at a conference on the disease organized in Ho Chi Minh City on October 31. The conference was held by the Vietnam Women’s Union, Medical Diag Center and...
Ministries announced to propose to the National Assembly to prosecute traffickers of banned substances in husbandry and food. Two ministries Agriculture and Rural Development and Public Security showed their determination in finding out traffickers...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced during a meeting in Ha Noi on Thursday that it plans to work with relevant agencies to examine and ensure food safety, which it identified as an urgent task. Minister Cao Duc Phat...
Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak needs a proper land use strategy to mitigate soil erosion and develop existing land resources, scientists have recommended. According to Trinh Cong Tu, an expert from the Central Highlands land,...
The World Wide Fund (WFF) for Nature in Denmark (WFF Denmark) and Danish organizations and businesses will continue their support for Vietnam to further promote natural conservation activities, including the expansion of effective bio-diversity...
