Health & Education

Vietnam and the European Union (EU) signed a financial agreement valued at EUR114 million for the second phase of the EU Health Sector Policy Support Programme (EU-HSPSP-2) in Vietnam

​Nearly 40,000 people have registered to donate their corneas, according to the Eye Bank of Vietnam.

​The northern mountainous province of Dien Bien recorded 291 new HIV-infected cases i n the first ten months of 2014, a reduction of 155 cases from the same period last year, according to Hoang Xuan Chien, Director of the provincial centre for HIV/AIDS prevention and control.

​The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has just approved a project to build a 1,000-bed paediatric hospital in the city.

A senior official from the Ministry of Health claims that many children who experience adverse reactions after being vaccinated are suffering from "a psychological reaction".

​Viet Nam has made significant headway in English language education, but needs to move faster to achieve its targets, an expert from a US-based global education company that draws up the annual English Proficiency Index has said.

Hanoi People`s Committee directed that departments, relevant agencies, People`s Committees of districts and cities have implemented the National Policy on preventing the harmful effects of alcohol abuse.

Closer co-operation between universities and industries is needed to further promote human resource training and innovative research in Viet Nam, participants at a recent conference here said.

​The conference room was humming with anticipation as headmasters from 66 leading universities in Vietnam and Hungary converged in Hanoi for the inaugural headmaster’s conference between the two nations.

​An estimated 53 million USD will be invested in expanding the Cho Ray – Phnom Penh general hospital in Cambodia, according to the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.

​All 63 provinces and cities across Vietnam completed the first phase of the national measles-rubella vaccination campaign with more than 9.5 million children safely receiving free shots, preliminary reports from the localities show.

​Challenges still lie ahead in the expansion of the methadone treatment programme, since only 27 percent of the 80,000 drug users targeted until 2015 received access to this form of therapy.

​An HIV-Addiction Technology Transfer Centre on the campus of the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy will offer workforce training and technical assistance in treating substance abuse.

Since the beginning of November, hand-foot-mouth disease has struck 7out of 8 communes in Khanh Son district in central coastal Khanh Hoa province, resulting in a sharp increase in infection cases.

​Most of the teachers conferred the title of “merit teacher” or “people’s teacher” are managerial staff, while very few teachers who give lectures at school receive the honorable titles.

​Enterprises in Viet Nam should provide comprehensive health care to employees to increase productivity and retention, an expert said yesterday at a workshop held in HCM City.

A project on building an HIV-addiction treatment technology transfer centre was officially kicked off at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy in on November 21.

Only 22,000 patients from 38 cities and provinces received methadone maintenance treatment by November 15, 2014, Nguyen Hoang Long, head of the Ministry of Health’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Department said in a workshop on the implementation of methadone maintenance treatment in Hanoi on November 20.

​The National Assembly discussed the draft project on textbook reform yesterday, the national holiday for teachers.

The Lilama 2 Technical and Technology College has become the first Vietnamese school to be accredited as a member of the European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB).