Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted separate receptions for Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Gerd Müller and Chief Programme Officer at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) Aurélia Nguyen in New York on September 20 (local time).
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on August 15 decided to allocate 185,000 doses of the DPT-VGB-Hib vaccine to 49 cities and provinces within this month.
Representatives from AVAC Vietnam Joint Stock Company and the Philippines’ KPP Powers Commodites Inc on August 15 visited a pig farm in Hanoi's Dan Phuong district, where Made-in-Vietnam African swine fever (ASF) vaccines have been tested.
Many newspapers and websites in the Republic of Korea such as Newsis and Nnews have highlighted Vietnam’s first-ever export of vaccines against African swine fever, saying this event has drawn attention of the global pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries.
Many newspapers and websites in the Republic of Korea (RoK) such as Newsis and Nnews on August 7 highlighted Vietnam’s first-ever export of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF), saying this event has drawn attention of the global pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries.
A batch of the 5-in-1 vaccine supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) arrived in Hanoi on July 27.
The third trial of the vaccine against hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) caused by the Non-Mouse-Adapted Enterovirus 71 (EV71) strain has been completed and is waiting for the Ministry of Health's approval, said Vice Director of Clinical Research Unit of Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh city Nguyen Trong Toan.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on July 24 issued a document guiding the use of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF) nationwide.
Ho Chi Minh City needs more than 1.7 million doses of 12 types of vaccines for children under the expanded immunisation programme between now and June 2024, according to a report to the municipal People’s Committee sent by the Department of Health.
It can be said that the COVID-19 pandemic has been brought under control in Vietnam thanks to efforts by the entire political system and people, and particularly vaccine diplomacy.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with UNICEF, has delivered 590 vaccine refrigerators to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health as part of support to further improve cold chain systems for routine immunisation and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.
The number of COVID-19 patients in Thailand is dropping while COVID-19 deaths are mostly those aged above 70 and unvaccinated, according to Thailand’s Public Health Ministry.
The Indonesian government will continue to pay for COVID-19 vaccination and treatment, spokesperson for the country’s COVID-19 task force, Wiku Adisasmitos announced on June 22.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for countries to proactively boost vaccine manufacturing capacity and Vietnam is not an exception, according to experts.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have agreed to ensure vaccine supply to support Vietnam’s expanded vaccination programme, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan has said.
Vietnam wishes to cooperate with Pfizer Inc., one of the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, in medicine and vaccine supply, and hopes it will invest in the production of drugs, vaccines and medical biological products in the Southeast Asian nation in the near future, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen has said.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been and will continue to be one of the most important and trusted partners of the Government and people of Vietnam on the country’s development and integration pathway, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang has affirmed.
Over the past three years of fighting the COVID-19 epidemic, Vietnam has undertaken appropriate responses to the epidemiological situation within the context of each period.
Vietnam's top health official said ensuring vaccines for the expanded vaccination programme is a very important task of the health sector. However, problems remain with the execution of the programme.
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