The Ambassadors/Heads of Agency Informal HIV Coordination Group wrote to Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc to convey their fears concerning Viet Nam's fight against HIV.

We, the co-chairs, are writing on behalf of the Ambassadors/Heads of Agency Informal HIV Coordination Group in regards to the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) 2011-2015. We commend ...

No new influenza A (H1N1) swine flu patients have been reported in Vietnam for more than one month, but the Vietnamese Ministry of Health is still planning to implement a vaccination plan for vulnerable people including medical workers and pregnant women.

Deputy Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine Nguyen Van Binh said only one person in the central province ...

 MEKONG DELTA — A significant increase in the number of patients hospitalised for dengue fever was reported in the Mekong Delta region two months prior to the virus' peak season, health experts have said.

Statistics from An Giang Province's Preventive Medicine Centre showed that as of yesterday, more than 1,180 people have contracted the disease, including three ...

HCM CITY — The Ministry of Health has ordered hospitals and clinics to stop using a tissue-staining agent which is suspected to have infected at least 30 eye-surgery patients in southern Viet Nam.

It has also asked Viet My Mechanical Equipment Company in HCM City's Go Vap District, which imports and distributes Trypan Blue block SV9025, to pull it out of the market.

Indian ...

HA NOI — Violations in the fields of preventive medicine and environmental protection and a lack of action on HIV/AIDS campaigning will lead to warnings and fines, according to the draft decree written by the Ministry of Health.

The decree will come into effect from August 1, after amendments.

Ministers, heads of government organisations and chairmen of provincial, ...

The US has helped Viet Nam set up a new HIV/AIDS programme at Hospital 87 in Nha Trang as part of its expanding support to the Vietnamese military medical system.

The programme, laun-ched on Wednesday, will provide safe blood products and voluntary counselling and testing services to both civilian and military populations from Khanh Hoa and neigh-bouring provinces.

It ...

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked the Ministry of Health to formulate a plan for developing and preserving precious herbs and other materials used for medicinal purposes.

He has also asked the ministry to estimate the use of domestic materials in the manufacture of medicines in the country.

The ministry should co-operate with relevant authorities ...

A project entitled "Improving Quality of Human Resource in Medical Service System" was signed yesterday by the Ministry of Health and the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA).

The five-year project will start in June this year with a JICA grant of US$5.3 million pledged to focus on priority activities such as hospital management, treatment and hygiene standards.

Hospitals ...

A free combined five-in-one vaccine programme for under one year-old children nation-wide started yesterday, said Trinh Quan Huan, Deputy Minister of Health.

The launch of the new five-in-one vaccine which inoculates children against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B and Hib is part of the expanded national immunisation programme.

About 2.3 million ...

Vietnam used to export traditional medicines, from the 1060s-1970s, but it is now entirely dependent on imported materials to manufacture drugs.  Meanwhile, some rare species of herbs have been on the edge of extinction due to brutal exploitation, the topic of discussion at a meeting on May 30 in the southern province of Binh Duong.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien ...

The Preventive Medicine Center of Ho Chi Minh City is ready for its free vaccination plan against five diseases starting on June 1, deputy director Nguyen Dac Tho said May 29.

The 5-in-1 vaccine is against Diphtheria; Tetanus; Pertussis (whooping-cough), hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza.

The plan targets babies born on April 1, 2010 and later.
 

To boost public-private cooperation in health sector, a conference was held by two ministries of Health and Planning and Investment, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and World Bank in the city on May 26 and 27.

 
Patients and relatives sit and lie down in a small hospital room. The government should call for investments in the health sector  to ...

Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong from the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute said the five in one vaccine which will be free given to babies under one year old in the National Expanded Program on Immunization next June is safe as public concern raised about the new supported by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Partners Forum.

Vietnam has tested reaction ...

Customers of ICA Biotechnological & Pharmaceutical JSC were rewarded with an all-expense paid trip to Hong Kong and Macau for their participation in the Tobicom Loyalty Program.

HA NOI — Babies under 12 months will receive a new combined diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B vaccine under the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI) as of June 2010.

"The five in one vaccine, donated by the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) through the United Nation Fund for Children (UNICEF), ...

HA NOI — "I know my cigarette smoke will affect people who don't smoke around me but I didn't know it was so serious," said Nguyen Van Dung from northern Hai Duong Province, who is being treated for lung cancer at Hospital K in Ha Noi. (Smoking in public affects to not only smokers' health but other people around them. — VNA/VNS Photo Nhat Anh)

Diep claimed ...

THUA THIEN HUE — Orbis International signed an agreement with the central province of Thua Thien- Hue to improve eyecare and reduce rates of blindness for children in seven central provinces.

The Ministry of Health has estimated that annually between 10,000-15,000 children in the region are in need of eyecare, while 1,000 to 1,500 of that number require surgeries.

The ...

Doctors suspect a patient in the central province of Quang Ngai died due to consuming diseased pigs, said a health official on May 24.

Dr. Nguyen Xuan Men, deputy director of the Department of Health of the province, confirmed that a 37 year old man in the Quang Ngai City died on May 22. Quang Ngai province is one of the provinces stricken by “the Porcine Reproductive ...

Several strange dangerous diseases have attacked people, adding the list of diseases like influenza, dengue fever, diarrhea in the scorching hot weather in the country

Nguyen Trung Cap,  a doctor of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, said there had three pregnant women suffered from a rare pneumonia.

The pregnant patients from the northern ...

HA NOI — The number of children currently suffering from viral fever in Ha Noi has risen sharply, according to Associate Professor Nguyen Tien Dung, head of Bach Mai Hospital Paediatrics Department.

"About one-third of 100-200 children hospitalised daily are suffering from viral fever", said Dung.

The same situation is repeated at the Central Paediatric Hospital. ...