Northern Vietnam remains the region with the highest number of death from rabies, accounting for 80 percent of the country’s mortality, deputy director of the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan told a meeting in Hanoi on August 6.
The Annual One Health Forum 2019 took place in Hanoi on June 12, highlighting Vietnam’s efforts to prevent and control diseases transmitted from animals to humans.
The Ministry of Health plans to provide free biochemical tests and X-rays once every year, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said during a visit to Tan Quy ward health station in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Phu district on April 23.
Local and international health experts discussed measures to confront infectious diseases at an international conference which opened in Hanoi on November 13.
Coordination between domestic and foreign organisations will be promoted to reduce health risks posed by diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans.
N.C.T, a 32-year-old man, and his partner, a 38-year-old man, are waiting at the District 11 Preventive Medicine Centre to receive free antiretroviral drugs.
Vietnam commits to working closely with the international community to effectively address antibiotic resistance related issues, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has asserted.
An agreement on the “One Health Partnership” (OHP) mechanism aimed at preventing zoonotic diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans was signed at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 1.
Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh has called for US engagement in dealing with water-energy-food relations through supporting Mekong countries in seeking effective measures to cope with climate change.
The Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) jointly held
a conference in Hanoi on May 12 to review the Asia-Pacific Strategy for
Emerging Diseases (APSED) and the International Health Regulations
(IHR) to draw lessons for future operations in the field.
Vietnam has taken the maximum effort and collaborated with
international and regional countries to fight avian influenza H5N1,
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam said.
More than 100 health, livestock and environment experts from 17
countries are discussing ways to promote collaboration in disease
prevention in the face of several newly emerging diseases at a three-day
workshop that began in Hanoi on October 13.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has
provided 800,000 USD for a project to reduce risks from avian and
pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious diseases in Vietnam.
How to apply the One Health Initiative in combating emerging infectious
diseases in the relations between humans, animals and the environment
in Vietnam is being discussed at a two-day conference in Hanoi, which
opened on April 3.
High-risk behaviours, such as using wild
animals as food and as a medicine source will increase the danger of
disease transmission from wild animals to people and domestic animals.
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