The Vietnamese and U.S. governments launched a new U.S.-Vietnam Partnership to Combat Wildlife Trafficking (the Partnership) during U.S. President Obama’s historic visit to Vietnam on June 23-25.
On May 23, CDC and USAID facilitated a Congressional delegation visit to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Hanoi. Senator Tom Carper, and U.S. Representatives Beto O'Rourke and Joaquin Castro, who were traveling to Vietnam as guests of President Barack Obama, participated in a test run of the EOC, linking with the EOC at the Ministry of Health General Department of Preventive Medicine and the U.S. CDC in Atlanta in real-time.
On May 18, in Danang, USAID’s Protecting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities project held a policy dialogue with Ministry of Transportation (MOT), three airlines operating in Vietnam, and 14 airport authorities to address the barriers faced by passengers with disabilities, and ways to improve the accessibility and make the airports more inclusive.
Vietnamese and Cambodian public health and animal health officials today opened a two-day, USAID-funded tabletop simulation exercise of an avian influenza outbreak at the border between the two countries. Hosted by the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, the workshop aims to strengthen surveillance and response procedures to the avian influenza A (H5N1) between Vietnam's An Giang Province and Cambodia's Takeo Province.
More than 100 representatives from Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Vietnam Administration of Forestry, provincial authorities from across the country, and development partners came together today in Hanoi for a U.S,-supported workshop to share experiences of Vietnam's Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) scheme.
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