The SUN Movement was initiated in 2009 with the engagement of 60 member countries. Since its participation in this movement in 2014, Vietnam has been active in scale up nutrition. At the signing ceremony In her speech, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien emphasized the importance of nutrition improvement for Vietnamese people and said that Vietnam was highly regarded by the international community as a shining example in implementing the UN Millennium Development Goals, especially the continuous and sustainable reduction of the malnutrition rate among under-five children, from 31.9 percent in 2001 to 13.8 percent in 2016. The Health Minister also pointed out some difficulties and challenges facing Vietnam, such as the rate of malnutrition in children under 5 remaining relatively high, the sharp increase in the rate of overweight and obese people and unduly attention paid to nutrition for students, laborers, patients and the elderly. At the launching ceremony, representatives from ministries, departments, provinces, cities committed to implementing the aforementioned directive. Translated by Mai Huong
PANO – The Health Ministry has announced the Nutrition and Development Week which will fall from October 16th to 23rd in response to the World Food Day (October 16th). The week, entitled "Boosting the social sponsoring policy and sustainable agricultural development to contribute to eliminating the poverty and raising nutrition of the Vietnamese people", aims to realize the National Nutrition Strategy in the 2011-2020 period. Particularly, the ministry will coordinate with State agriculture bodies to provide guidelines on proper cultivation techniques for farmers and develop VAC (garden-pond-livestock) integrated farming systems to heighten the country’s food security and improve Vietnamese people’s…... [read more]
The health ministry's Medical Examination and Treatment Management Department launched level 4 online public services to issue licences for examinations and treatment practices at a ceremony today in Ha Noi. — Photo daidoanket.vn Levels of public service registration Level 1: Procedures to fill in the required forms and information about time and service cost are available on-line. Level 2: The service allows the user to download the required forms to be printed out and filled in later. Level 3: The applicant can fill in and submit the forms on-line. Level 4: Service payments can be settled on-line. Transaction results are…... [read more]
The Ministry of Health on Saturday launched a hygiene campaign to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), which has killed 153 people, mostly children, in Vietnam this year. The campaign called on parents and caregivers to instruct children to frequently wash their hands with soap in an attempt to prevent the HFMD viruses from spreading, the Lao Dong newspaper reported. The campaign's kick-off ceremony took place in the central province of Ninh Thuan, the first province in Vietnam to have declared the HFMD epidemic. According to the Health Ministry, HFMD has claimed 153 lives among around 90,190 infections in…... [read more]
An HIV/AIDS website for Vietnamese youth was officially launched on Sept. 15. The website www.hoanhiptim.vn aims to provide latest information on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS pandemic, basic knowledge on reproductive healthcare and gender issues to people aged between 15-24, especially high-risk and vulnerable groups, drug addicts and migrating youth. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony in Ha Noi, Deputy Head of the Health Ministry's General Department of Population and Family Planning Nguyen Van Tan said that the dissemination of information on HIV/AIDS prevention and control among young people is the most effective way when there is neither vaccine nor…... [read more]
At the launching ceremony (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAVN) under the Ministry of Health launched online public services level 4 on November 26 to help pharmaceutical firms register drug and medicine prices.Service level 4, the highest of the four administrative service levels in the country, is expected to ease the registration process for healthcare enterprises."The application of online service level 4 in drug management is a step forward by the health ministry towards administrative procedure reform and the improvement of state management at DAVN," Director of DAVN Truong Quoc Cuong said at the launching ceremony."The…... [read more]
