VnDG: Social Development

HIV / AIDS

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In 2010, Hanoi will attempt to keep the rate of people with HIV/AIDS at below 0.3 percent and stem the growth of the virus over the next few years. more...

	Coffee shop becomes home for mentally disabled children (22/03)
	Hi-tech treatment booms in Vietnam (24/02)
	Houses, healthcare for elderly (22/02)
	New rules to help insured access healthcare (22/02)
	HCM City to open three family clinics (11/02)
	Japan upgrades maternity hospital’s equipment (05/02)
	Hanoi’s “safe” greens contain excessive pesticides (05/02)
	Vietnam wishes to bolster cooperation with WHO (03/02)
	Record pot of banh chung for disadvantaged children (02/02)
	US helps Vietnam produce flu vaccine (01/02)

Child issues

Record pot of banh chung for disadvantaged children
	A record number of 1,000 banh chung (square glutinous rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

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Healthcare

Sex equal right

Hi-tech treatment booms in Vietnam

A recent boom in hi-tech medical operations in Viet Nam has brought recognition to the country and foreign patients, who are in desperate need of surgery, Ha Nguyen reports.

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Houses, healthcare for elderly

All elderly people will be provided with permanent housing and healthcare services under the National Action Programme for the Elderly this year.

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•Politburo releases review of health

Gender equality not yet sustainable
It’s twilight, the end of the work day for migrant shoe seller Vu Thi Soi, although she is not happy with the outcome. ...more...

Social Relief

• HCM City to open three family clinics

• Hanoi’s “safe” greens contain excessive pesticides

Social Organization

• Japan upgrades maternity hospital’s equipment

• Vietnam wishes to bolster cooperation with WHO