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UNFPA helps reproductive health care

UNFPA helps realise reproductive health care strategy

UNFPA pledges continued support to VN's population and reproductive health care national strategy.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has pledged continuedsupport to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to implement the nationalstrategy on population and reproductive health care for the 2011-2020period.

The MoH and the UNFPA held a ceremony to launch the supporting project in Hanoi on October 31.

According to Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien, the UNFPA’sassistance will be a firm foundation for Vietnam’s efforts toaddress such issues as gender imbalance at birth, care for old people,domestic violence, safe motherhood and family planning, towardsfulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The projectwill focus on collecting data, improving the compilation,implementation and supervision of laws, policies and programmes in thefields of population, reproductive health, sexual health and genderviolence.

Acting Chief Representative of UNFPA Vietnam MandeepK. O’Brien said investment in reproductive health care and sexualhealth is part of the poverty reduction and hunger alleviation of many countries in the world, including Vietnam .

She affirmed the UNFPA’s strong commitment to help the Vietnamesegovernment in its efforts to reach the target of universal access tointegrated services for qualified reproductive and sexual health care atcommune and district levels.-VNA
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