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NEWS AND EVENTS
Community participation in malaria elimination
On November 22, 2017 – a representative of the Center for Health Consultation and Community Development (CHD) participated in a consensual workshop on the project “Enhancing the participation of community in Malaria Elimination” in Vietnam. This workshop was held by the Vietnam Consortium for Malaria Community Initiatives (VietMCI) at Hai Au hotel in Qui Nhon City. In 2011, the Prime ... Read More »
Why RAI? Investing to Eliminate Malaria in the Mekong
There’s good reason to be optimistic about the fight against malaria. The number of deaths caused by malaria globally declined 50 percent between 2000 and 2015 – that translates to an estimated 6.8 million deaths averted. The number of malaria cases has also declined rapidly, resulting in 1.3 billion cases averted. Yet these achievements come at a time when drug-resistant ... Read More »
This is the kind of vaccine that will make a difference
Dr. Photini Sinnis, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in the United States, talks about the prospects for the malaria vaccine, which is expected to be widely tested in Africa next year. Nearly 430,000 people die from mosquito-borne diseases in 2015 and hundreds of millions of people get malaria every year, many never fully recovered. More progress ... Read More »
Announcement!
About the change of Hanoi office address. From 24/04/2017, CHD’s office in Hanoi moved to the new address: No 10A, Lane 158/63 Nguyen Van Cu, Long Bien, Hanoi and new telephone number is +84 4 3872 7450. All correspondence should be sent to the new address above. Thank you! Read More »
Responding to the Action Month for HIV/AIDS Prevention
The action month for HIV/AIDS prevention is launched by The National Committee for Prevention and Control of AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution across the country from November 10th to December 10th, 2016. Responded to this movement, the Center for Health Consultation and Community Development (CHD) and POSCO E&C continued to conduct the communication activities about “Raising awareness on HIV/AIDS and STIs” ... Read More »
Action Month for HIV/AIDS prevention launched
VGP – The National Committee for Prevention and Control of AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution has launched the Action Month for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in 2016 from November 10-December 10. The targets aim that by 2020: 90% of people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 90% of people who know their status are on HIV treatment and 90% ... Read More »
INCREASING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIV/AIDS FOR WORKERS
Until the end of October 2016, the Center for Health Consultation and Community Development (CHD) and POSCO E&C have successfully organized 11 events about “Raising awareness on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)” for officials and workers of the Hanoi pilot light metro line project section Nhon – Hanoi Railway Station. The program has grown the number of people communicated ... Read More »
Joined in connection for Vietnam community
In the morning of September 30th 2016, at the hall of the Southern Institute of Social Sciences (SISS), taking place the conference “Exchange and connect to the network of social organizations working in the field of communication and share the project models implementing the whole population health insurance (HI) itinerary”. The conference was taking place under the chairmanship of MSc ... Read More »
Safe sex for workers
For along time, knowledges about HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STIs) are rarely equipped for construction workers. Understood this issue, the Center for Health Consultation and Community Development (CHD) and POSCO E&C company had implemented monthly communication activities for these workers. With the aim for raising awareness about prevention of serious diseases, the communications program about “Raising awareness on HIV/AIDS ... Read More »