Customs procedure at Lang Son's Huu Nghi border gate (Photo: VNA) Lang Son (VNA) – The management board of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Health Security Project in Lang Son will work to enhance information sharing and coordination against diseases with China along the shared border by the end of 2018. The information was revealed at an inter-sectoral meeting on disease control and prevention in 2018 held by the board in the northern province on November 16. The event brought together representatives from the province’s Department of Health, Centre for Disease Control and General Hospital alongside ten districts participating in the project. At the meeting, Dao Dinh Cuong, Director of the Centre for Disease Control and the board’s deputy director, gave the attendees a brief overview of the GMS Health Security Project and its action plans in Lang Son this year. Funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through an 84-million-USD sum, the project will be … [Read more...] about Disease control along Lang Son-China border to be enhanced
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Localities to strengthen HIV/AIDS control and prevention
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health has asked provinces and cities to strengthen HIV/AIDS control and prevention activities as part of the Central Party Steering Committee’s goal of eliminating HIV/AIDS in the country by 2030. The health ministry asked localities to improve HIV preventive measures, especially distribution of syringes and condoms to high-risk groups like drug addicts and prostitutes. Methadone programmes will be maintained and expanded to treat drug addicts. Communication activities will strengthen the community’s awareness and eliminate stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS. To strengthen HIV supervision and detection activities, HIV consultation, test and screening forms will be diversified at medical facilities, community and households. HIV test programmes should be carried out at the district level in mountainous and remote and ethnic minority areas, especially residential clusters with … [Read more...] about Localities to strengthen HIV/AIDS control and prevention
Hà Nội sets up centre for disease control
Chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has approved the establishment of a centre for disease control based on the restructuring of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hà Nội. — Photo anninhthudo.vn HÀ NỘI — Chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has approved the establishment of a centre for disease control based on the restructuring of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hà Nội. Under the decision, the Centre for Preventive Medicine will be renamed as Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (Hanoi CDC) and have a total of 540 staff members. Measles risks Hà Nội has recorded 290 cases of measles so far this … [Read more...] about Hà Nội sets up centre for disease control
Hanoi sets up centre for disease control
The Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hanoi (Source: chinhphu.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has approved the establishment of a centre for disease control based on the restructuring of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hanoi. Under Decision 4016/QD-UBND signed on August 6, after reshuffling, the Centre for Preventive Medicine will be renamed as Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (Hanoi CDC) and have a total of 540 staff members. The Hanoi CDC, which is under the direct control of the municipal Health Department, will provide counselling and organise activities on disease prevention and health risk reduction. The centre is also tasked with managing community health. Earlier, the Centre for Preventive Medicine was re-organised with the merger of nine units of the city’s preventive medicine system. In addition, the reproductive health care centre at the Hanoi Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital was moved to the … [Read more...] about Hanoi sets up centre for disease control
Early, strict ARV treatment prevents HIV transmission
Partcipants at the launching ceremony (Source: organisation board) HCM City (VNA) – A campaign to tackle HIV was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on May 24. A person living with HIV taking antiretroviral (ARV) therapy daily as instructed by doctors and maintaining the condition of undetectable viral load will have no risk to transfer HIV virus to his/her partners, read a message released at a ceremony to launch the K=K campaign. The K=K (undetectable=incommunicable) campaign was launched by the Ho Chi Minh City Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Vietnam and the Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (VNP+). The message released at the ceremony explained how a person living with HIV taking antiretroviral (ARV) therapy daily and maintaining an undetectable viral load has no risk of transferring the HIV virus to sexual partners. Dr. John Blandford, Principal Director of the CDC Division of Global … [Read more...] about Early, strict ARV treatment prevents HIV transmission