Vietnam Program Updates

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For USAID/Vietnam program updates issued before January 2017, please visit the 2012-2017 Archive Site.

September 28, 2017

On September 24, USAID’s Healthy Markets activity teamed up with Life Centre (an NGO) and Lighthouse (a social enterprise) to promote HIV products and services at VietPride, Vietnam’s national LGBT+ festival.

September 21, 2017

On September 15, USAID’s Governance for Inclusive Growth Program collaborated with the Ministry of Justice to organize a National Legal Forum to discuss Vietnam’s efforts to increase access to justice for poor people and other vulnerable groups.

September 21, 2017

Worldwide, buildings consume roughly 30 percent of the energy produced and delivered. USAID and Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction (MOC) have worked together for four years to study buildings and identify opportunities to apply the latest technologies and materials to save energy in Vietnam’s rapidly growing building sector.

September 21, 2017

Vietnam is currently transitioning more than 100,000 antiretroviral therapy (ART) patients from externally-funded to locally-financed treatment services under social health insurance (SHI). Signing up for insurance requires patients to complete multiple and often challenging administrative procedures.

September 19, 2017

Last week, Arizona State University and Portland State University policy experts trained leaders from 8 Vietnamese universities on creating policies to develop project-based learning approaches.

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