Social development
Gender
Vietnam opens up pharma import market for foreign businesses
It is now easier for foreign companies to join the Vietnamese pharmaceutical market, buoyed by recently-loosened business conditions regarding drug registration and imports.Keep reading ...
Minh Tam
Hanoi works to reduce gender imbalance at birth
Hanoi has set a goal this year to limit the imbalance of the sex ratio at birth and keep the rate at 113 girls per 100 boys. According to the municipal Department, local family planning work is facing difficulties due to the city’s large population and ...
VNS Reporter
Vietnam’s first LGBT-friendly clinic provides relief from illness and prejudice
A month ago, the Binh Dan Hospital in District 3, Saigon, has opened a new clinic on its 6th floor, catering to members of the LGBT community, making it Vietnam’s first public medical facility to do so. [] Vietnam is regarded highly in the region for ...
Le Phuong
70 percent of rural Vietnam community carries superbugs
Antibiotics-resistant bacteria have been found in the intestines of 70 percent of citizens in a Vietnamese rural community. This alarming fact was reported Wednesday by the bi-annual medical publication Infectious Disease Special Edition.Keep reading ...
Phan Anh
1 mln USD total prize offered for innovative climate change responses
Organisations and individuals with creative ideas that can help Vietnam respond and adapt to the impacts of climate change may win the chance to access aid worth 75,000 USD for each project.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Sex ratio at birth hits record 115.1 boys to 100 girls
Vietnam’s sex ratio at birth hit a record high imbalance of 115.1 boys to 100 girls in 2018, up three percentage points from 2017 and falling short of the targeted 112.8 boys to 100 girls, said a population and family planning official.Keep reading ...
VietnamNet Reporter
VN strives to erase maternal transmission of HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis
The Ministry of Health (MoH) organised a workshop in Hanoi on January 8 to launch a national action plan on the eradication of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in the 2018-2030. The country is striving to eliminate the mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis ...
Đỗ Thoa
Vietnam targets vaccination rate of 95 percent for under-1-year-old children
The health sector aims to have over 95 percent of under-one-year-old children nationwide fully vaccinated in the expanded national immunization programme by 2020, said Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) Dang Duc Anh. The programme will continue to support disadvantaged localities to increase ...
Nguyễn Bích Thủy
Record-breaking Vietnamese organ transplants from a single donor
Vietnamese doctors have successfully transplanted six organs from one donor to four patients for the first time.Tran Binh Giang, head of Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital announced on December 24 that the donor was a 40-year-old brain dead patient. According to his family, he had expressed the ...
Hoang Hai
Law ensures citizens’ right to information access
The Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) co-held a seminar in Hanoi on December 24 to introduce leaflets on the Law on Access to InformationCatherine Phuong, a UNDP representative in Vietnam, ensuring people’s right to information access is one of the ...
