01-06-2022 18:32
On June 1, Australia provided 7.2 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses with Vietnam purchased through an agreement with UNICEF and in partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Health. The vaccines were already delivered on May 20-28 to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
18-05-2022 18:00
UNICEF is calling for countries, including Vietnam, to strengthen their policies to include child malnutrition within long-term development funding schemes.
21-02-2022 17:18
Australia has delivered 3.6 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam over recent weeks through a procurement agreement with UNICEF and in partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Health.
15-12-2021 10:04
In an effort to step up the parenting agenda in Vietnam, UNICEF has joined the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, VCCI and businesses with support from The Human Safety Net to launch a partnership to expand the Integrated Early Childhood Development Holistic Parenting Project that will promote nurturing care for Vietnamese children.
06-12-2021 11:13
A workshop themed “Financing Responses to Disasters and Shocks: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges in Disaster Risk Financing and Disaster Responsive Social Protection in Southeast Asia” has been jointly held by the ASEAN Secretariat and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) East Asia and Pacific via videoconference.
16-11-2021 09:00
Australia’s ongoing assistance to Vietnam’s economic recovery and green development, as well as extended collaboration under the Australia-Vietnam Strategic Partnership, were discussed during the official visit last week to Vietnam of the Australian minister for both foreign affairs and women.
09-11-2021 20:26
The Health Ministry’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on November 9 received 1,910 vaccine fridges, 5 million syringes and 50,000 safety boxes within the framework of a vaccination support project in Vietnam funded by the Australian Government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
01-10-2021 17:13
Vietnam has received 300 vaccine refrigerators funded by the government of Japan and procured through UNICEF.
16-09-2021 23:01
A batch of 852,480 AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived in Hanoi on September 16, according to the German Embassy in Vietnam and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
28-08-2021 21:42
The World Health Organization (WHO) has handed over medical supplies and consumables to the Ministry of Health as part of its continuing support to the Vietnamese Government for COVID-19 response.
21-08-2021 14:03
Children and young people living in Vietnam are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, according to a UNICEF report launched on August 20.
10-06-2021 16:00
The third COVAX batch is being considered by the World Health Organization and is expected to arrive in Vietnam next month.
01-04-2021 16:00
The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility has arrived in Vietnam on April 1, bolstering the country’s vaccine supply and assisting it in the battle against COVID-19.
23-10-2020 16:25
UNICEF will provide at least 100,000 USD in emergency relief to the central region which has been devastated by floods and landslides triggered by downpours over the past two weeks.
13-12-2019 12:49
The US’s Kimberly Clark Corporation has partnered up with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a project on improving health of newborns and reducing infant mortality rate in Vietnam’s northern mountainous and Central Highlands regions.