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Geographical Locations - Viet Nam
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- (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 2,843
- CIA World Factbook - Vietnam
Organisations and Networks
UN and Multinational
Government
Non-Government
- Amerasian Network - an official non-profit organization recognized by the State of California which operates in Viet Nam to benefit Amerasians and other displaced young people
- CARE : Country Profile
- CSS - Centrale Sanitaire Suisse - Zürich - Politische Solidarität durch medizinische Hilfe ( French & German ): Viet Nam
- Far East Help Foundation - "provides care for Vietnamese children who have been abused, abandoned and homeless, scrounging, begging for their lives on streets or whose families need assistance in caring for them"
- Fred Hollows Foundation : Viet Nam
- Marie Stopes International : Viet Nam
- MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders :
- MSF targets STDS & AIDS
- Social Assistance Program for Viet Nam - a non-profit, non-governmental and non-religious humanitarian organization based in Garden Grove, California. "SAP-VN's primary objective is to provide direct relief to poor and needy people, especially orphans and handicapped children, mainly in health care, education and social welfare. All of SAP-VN's relief efforts are carried out directly by SAP-VN's members (from the U.S.) and associates in Vietnam"
- Viet Nam Friendship Village - a multinational effort to build a small village in Viet Nam which will be home to elderly and handicapped persons, orphans and students. It was conceived by George Mizo, a Viet Nam Veteran activist, as a gesture of unity that would herald a new era of global cooperation and peace
- VUFO-NGO Resource Centre Vietnam
The VUFO-NGO Resource Centre was established in 1993 to serve the community of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) working in Viet Nam and their Vietnamese partner institutions. The Centre's activities include hosting a monthly INGO forum, supporting a number of working groups focusing on different sectoral issues, maintaining a library as well as on-line resources concerning development issues in Vietnam, publishing an annual INGO directory and providing an e-mail list and news summary service.
Academic Institutions
National Policy and Related Documents
Reports, Guidelines, and Projects
- Civil Society Perspectives on HIV/AIDS Policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam: overview
"National governments and international agencies attempting to address HIV/AIDS continue to exclude or ignore marginalized groups that are disproportionately affected by the epidemic. In countries ranging from the United States, with some of the world’s best medicine and health care technology, to Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, marginalized groups — injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities — are frequently excluded from the design, implementation, and evaluation of national HIV/AIDS policies and programs. The Open Society Institute’s Public Health Watch HIV/AIDS Monitoring Project has documented the varying degrees and different forms that stigma and discrimination against marginalized groups can take in five developed and developing countries: Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam. The results of this research, which are highlighted in this overview and available in five separate country reports, have made it clear that national governments and international agencies must collaborate more effectively with these groups in order to hear their concerns and address their needs." [Public Health Watch, Open Society Institute, 2007]
- New strategy against Aedes aegypti in Vietnam
The container-breeding mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is the major global vector of dengue viruses, causing around 50 million infections annually. We have developed a mosquito control strategy, incorporating four elements: (1) a combined vertical and horizontal approach that depends on community understanding; (2) prioritised control according to the larval productivity of major habitat types; (3) use of predacious copepods of the genus Mesocyclops as a biological control agent; delivered by (4) community activities of health volunteers, schools, and the public. We have previously reported that, from 1998 to 2003, community-based vector control had resulted in A aegypti elimination in six of nine communes, with only small numbers of larvae detected in the others. Here, we report eradication in two further communes and, as a result of local expansion after the project in three northern provinces, elimination from 32 of 37 communes (309 730 people). As a result, no dengue cases have been detected in any commune since 2002. These findings suggest that this strategy is sustainable in Vietnam and applicable where the major sources of A aegypti are large water storage containers. [author abstract] [Lancet 2005; 365: 613–17]
- The Third Country Report on Following Up the Implementation to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS: The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
"Viet Nam’s HIV epidemic remains largely concentrated among key populations at higher risk, with high HIV prevalence among injecting drug users, female sex workers and their partners, and men having sex with men. Significant interaction between the risk behaviours of sharing injecting equipment and unprotected sex, particularly among young men, continues to drive the HIV epidemic in Viet Nam."
- Vietnam: situation of indigenous minority groups in the Central Highlands
This paper commissioned by the UNHCR provides an assessment of the problems in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and looks at the aftermath of the 2001 protests that erupted there and their effect on refugee movements. The paper also updates the current social, economic and political situation in the Central Highlands and in Vietnam generally to see what effect current trends may have on future refugee outflows and on the ability of repatriated persons to reintegrate into Vietnam.
- Vietnam’s Health Care System: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Vietnam’s health indicators are better than would be expected for a country at its development level, and they continue to improve at rates that equal or surpass those in most neighboring countries. However, in the midst of a major program of poverty reduction and economic growth, Vietnam’s health care system is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. Twenty years ago, it was firmly controlled by the central government. But the ability of the Ministry of Health (MOH) to shape activities has diminished significantly, due to the rapid growth of the private sector, the much larger role of out-of-pocket expenditures, and the ongoing process of fiscal decentralization. Over time, new policy tools have been developed, including user fees, health insurance and health-care funds for the poor. These tools all focus on the financing of health, but still fail to merge into a coherent health financing system. This paper outlines the current structure and effectiveness of Vietnam’s health sector from the perspectives of public finance administration and macroeconomic tradeoffs. The paper will first compare Vietnam’s health sector to those of other countries in Asia. A discussion of health spending in the context of overall public expenditure priorities in Vietnam will follow, with special attention to how the health sector is evolving within the context of Vietnam’s Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (CPRGS) and longer-term planning framework. [author abstract] Paper prepared for the International Symposium on Health Care Systems in Asia, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, 21-22January 2005. [International Monetary Fund]
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