The PM has recently passed an overall project on “Shifting approach on poverty measurement from one-way direction to multi-dimension in the 2016-2020 period”. The fresh project mainly focuses on building poverty measurement criteria in the next five...
An annual 3-4% decrease in the poverty rate of ethnic groups is one of the specific targets of realizing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) towards ethnic minorities associated with the post-2015 sustainable development goal, recently approved by...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on September 16 signed an agreement to fund $2.1 million to a project aimed at mitigating threats of animal-to-human disease transmission in Vietnam to be carried out with technical...
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), a contagious viral illness, is spreading in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s biggest economic hub, with the number of hospitalized patients in the recent week rising over 30% from the average of the four preceding...
The Vietnamese government has established a Decision to implement health insurance nationwide in the 2015-2020 period with a target rate of 84.3% coverage by 2020. According to the Decision, Vietnam is aiming at a rate of 75.4% of all population...
The blood bank at the Hanoi-based National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion is running out of blood type A with only 160 units of 250ml left, local media reported today. The hospital said that it needed 500 units of type-A daily to...
The prices of paid vaccines in Vietnam have surged between 5% and 10% recently due to scarcity and foreign manufacturers hiking their quotes, according to the Hanoi Preventive Medicine Center. The price of a dose of vaccine against typhoid has gone...
The development of dengue fever in the South East region and in all corners of the country is complicated. In August, the health sector in the southern provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong reported 6 deaths; accordingly, the sector must speed up to...
Vietnam Clean Water Investment and Construction Corporation (VIWACO) will raise the running water prices for households by 20% starting on October 1. The hike means that consumers have to pay VND6,869 (30 US cent) per cubic meter (cu.m) for the...
The central province plans to create a 7,900ha sea reserve off the coast of Ly Son island and Binh Chau commune before awarding it Global Geopark status. Nguyen Dang Vu, Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said the...
