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Reproductive health care for ethnic women improved

In recent years, thanks to the increased dissemination of information and the provision of good services to the grassroots level, the awareness of health care for ethnic minority women has been changed positively, and the reproductive healthcare system has been improved as well.
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Hanoi (VNA) – In recent years, thanks to the increased dissemination of informationand the provision of good services to the grassroots level, the awareness ofhealth care for ethnic minority women has been changed positively, and thereproductive healthcare system has been improved as well.

Specifically, the dissemination of information about sexual and reproductivehealth for ethnic minority women and youths in remote areas have been steppedup, with medical workers coming to each hamlet to provide consultancy andencourage pregnant women to go to medical facilities for check-ups, and advisewomen to use family planning measures.

Medics alsowork with prestigious people in the hamlets to encourage local residents to give birthin accordance with the fertility rate for each region, and avoid the selectionof sons that causes gender imbalance.

Pregnant women now are aware of going to medical establishments, instead of staying at home, for giving birth.

In the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, forexample, such synchronous measures have proved effective in improvingreproductive health in the locality. The number of pregnant women having theirhealth monitored reaches 93 percent, and the number of pregnant women havingtheir health examined thrice or more and that of women cared by medical workerswhile giving birth increase continuously./.
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