School-based dental programme planned

Viet Nam is planning a comprehensive school-based dental programme that will cover all the country and will provide free dental care to 70 per cent of school children by the year 2010, said Tran Van Truong, director of the Odonto-Oxillo-Facial Institute.

Clinton Foundation to fund AIDS program in Vietnam

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and the Clinton Foundation from the US signed an agreement on the prevention and treatment of AIDS, cutting the annual cost of treatment eight-fold.

Agreement reached to provide affordable HIV/AIDS treatment

Viet Nam is expected to have access to cheaper antiretroviral (ARV), drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS following the signing of an agreement in Ha Noi on Monday.