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Vietnam may not achieve its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on halting and reserving the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 unless greater efforts by all stakeholders are mobilised. This warning was given in the recently-released national report on 2008 MDGs. The report said by the end of 2007, HIV infected people were situated in 66 percent of [...]
Hanoi is expected to become totally free of tobacco smoke by 2010 under a project with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Bloomberg Fund of the US as a practical celebration of its millennium anniversary. WHO resident representative in Vietnam Jean-Marc Olive pointed out numerous ill-effects to human beings caused by smoking as reasons [...]
Hanoi’s Vice Chairman Dao Van Binh on May 16 led a delegation that checked on dog meat preparation in Ha Dong district after cholera was found in dog meat sold in the area. Dog slaughterhouses there will be closed at least 15 days as of that day. Hanoi authorities will also spray Chloramin B to [...]
To May 18, 540 people in eleven northern provinces have been diagnosed with acute diarrhea, including 53 testing positive to vibrio cholerae bacterium, reports the Preventive Health and Environment Agency (PHEA). Acute diarrhea has spread to eleven provinces in the north. The affected provinces cover the entire Red River Delta area and adjacent Quang Ninh, [...]
The Ministry of Health signed a pledge with the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 20 to take part in the First Global Patient Safety Challenge titled “Save lives: Clean Your Hands.” Vietnam became the 118th country to pledge support to the campaign to reduce the global health burden imposed by health care-associated-infection. This is [...]
Hanoi’s Preventive Medicine Center said on April 21 that the cause of death of a four-month-old baby in Hanoi soon after getting a vaccine is unclear. Initial investigations reveal that the child from the capital’s Thanh Xuan District was taken to the Thanh Xuan Bac Ward medical center on April 18 for a routine vaccine — known [...]
Following the first case of cholera this year in Hanoi, in Tu Liem District, suspected to be caused by eating dog meat or shrimp paste, authorities have inspected eateries selling the meat and isolated the victim’s neighborhood (Photo: SGGP) After the Ministry of Health reported April 20 the first case of cholera this year in [...]
Unhealthy competition prevails in Vietnam’s medicine market as distributors and producers shake hands and fix prices. Thus, medicine prices are unsustainable, according to a recent report on competition in the country’s drug distribution system conducted by the Vietnam Competition Administration Department, or VCAD. The foreign companies dominate the market with a huge supply chain and [...]
Vietnam’s first National Drug Information and Monitoring Centre will be set up at the Hanoi University of Pharmacy. Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu on March 24 signed a decision approving the establishment of the centre to ensure the safe and effective use of drugs. The centre aims to develop a national database for pharmaceuticals, provide [...]
The seventh conference of the Asian Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists (ASPA) opened at Pediatrics Hospital 1 in HCM City on March 26. More than 200 pediatric anesthesiologists and pediatricians from Vietnam and other Asian countries discussed anaesthetisation in newborn and fetus surgery and heart surgery. The two-day conference also heard reports on anaesthetising premature babies [...]