Social development
Gender
PM approves project on sustainable poverty reduction
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a project on assisting hamlets and villages in border, mountainous, coastal, and island areas with new-style rural area building and sustainable poverty reduction for the 2018-2020 period. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Joint initiative in Hanoi to make internet more gender equal
The Swedish Embassy, UNDP, UN Women, civil society organisations, business community and local media are cooperating with Wikimedia to highlight achievements of women from Vietnam on the occasion of the National Women’s Day (20 October). With the initiative, the organisers want to increase the number ...
UNDP
Vietnam eliminates lymphatic filariasis
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Vietnam has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. According to the WHO, lymphatic filariasis is an infection transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.Keep reading ...
Ha Quyen
Vietnam's first tissue bank opens in Hanoi
Vietnam has opened its first ever tissue bank for medical diagnosis, education and research in Viet Duc Hospital. The Tissue Bank, licensed by the Ministry of Health, would receive, store and transport tissue samples.Keep reading ...
Le Nga
Vietnam makes progress in human development, poverty reduction
Vietnam can be proud to have helped 6 million people escape poverty from 2012 to 2016 under national multidimensional poverty standards, according to Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen. Keep reading ...
New Hanoi Reporter
Ministry sounds warning against diseases in south
The Ministry of Health has called on authorities and hospitals in the south to strengthen preventive measures to control the spread of measles and hand-foot-mouth disease. The number of HFM infections has increased steadily in the region, with nearly 4,800 cases reported so far this year, ...
VNA Reporter
Vietnam strives to reduce sex imbalances at birth
A ceremony was held in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on October 9 in response to International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), focusing on the theme of no sex discrimination and no selection of unborn babies. []Statistics show that sex imbalances at ...
VNA Reporter
Govt spells out ambitious plan to develop grassroots healthcare
The Ministry of Health is making efforts to strengthen the grassroots healthcare system to improve the quality of primary healthcare and achieve universal health coverage, which will ensure that everyone can access quality healthcare services without facing financial hardship.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Vietnam ranks 4th in liver cancer fatality rate
On average, 23 people per 100,000 die of liver cancer in Vietnam, among the highest rates in the world, according to a report by the World Cancer Research Fund International.Keep reading ...
VOV News Reporter
Vietnam commits to wiping out tuberculosis by 2030
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has committed to wiping out tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam by 2030 while addressing the High-Level TB Meeting, held on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
