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Delegates at a conference in Hanoi on August 15 discussed measures to complete tuberculosis (TB) treatment facilities in 15 provinces that have yet to build special hospitals for this disease.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the establishment of a national committee on tuberculosis (TB) eradication.

The Ly Thai To Statue Square in downtown Hanoi was bustling with activities marking World Health Day 2019 on April 7.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has emphasised that tuberculosis is an infectious but not scary disease, even with the progress of medicine today it is no longer an "incurable disease."

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested stronger and more effective actions to wipe out tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 at a ceremony held in Hanoi on March 23 in response to the World Tuberculosis Day 2019.

The National Lung Hospital, the National Programme against Tuberculosis (TB) and the Patients Support Foundation to End Tuberculosis (PASTB) and the National Humanitarian Portal 1400 have launched a text message campaign to support TB patients.

Ten doctors and technicians from the French-Vietnamese Association of Pneumology visited the National Lung Hospital in Hanoi from November 5-9.

Vietnam is now able to treat all strains of multi-drug-resistant and totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) with short-term treatment regimens using newly accessible drugs.

Deputy Health Minister Le Quang Cuong and a Vietnamese Health Ministry delegation had working sessions with foreign partners on the sidelines of the 71st World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland from May 21-26.

The health sector has called for the involvement of authorities at all levels to act for a Vietnam without tuberculosis (TB) patients at a ceremony held recently in Hanoi.

A press competition aiming to increase public engagement in eradicating tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam has been launched in response to the upcoming World TB Day (March 24).

A tuberculosis prevention project was launched in the port city of Hai Phong on October 1by the city’s Department of Health.

A Vietnamese representative was elected to the World Health Organisation Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB) for the first time.

Vietnam is striving to reduce the rate of tuberculosis (TB) patients to 131 cases/100,000 people and the fatality rate from the disease to lower than 10/100,000 people by 2020.

Vietnam should strengthen capacity building for its tuberculosis (TB) research network towards eliminating the disease, heard a workshop in Hanoi on September 17.