Ministries and localities are asked to raise their sense of awareness of realizing the MDGs.

MDGs should be incorporated in local socio-economic development plans especially in mountainous and difficult provinces and ethnic minority areas.

Under the Resolution, central and local budgets would be prioritized for the MDGs on mother and child mortality as well as HIV/AIDS prevention which Viet Nam has yet attained and the maintenance of the other achieved goals such as child malnutrition, tuberculosis and malaria prevention, clean water and environmental sanitation.

Ministries and localities are asked to raise financial funds for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

In addition, technical measures would be effectively implemented such as the “Milk for schools” program in favor of child malnutrition in poor and difficult regions or areas frequently ravaged by natural disasters or the model with “child-safe home, child-safe school and child-safe community.”

In the 1990-2015 period, Viet Nam has committed to fulfilling the MDGs on health relating to halving child malnutrition rate; cutting under five years old mortality rate by two-thirds; lessening mother mortality ratio by three-fourths; achieving universal access to reproductive health; preventing and driving back HIV/AIDS infection by 2015; providing universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all victims by 2010; stopping and controlling malaria and other diseases by 2015; and lowering the rate of people who do not access to safe water and basic sanitation conditions by half./.

By Kim Anh