With technical assistance from USAID’s Healthy Markets Project, in July 2017, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) issued Circular 31 in which condoms are featured among the list of Class II goods regulated by the MoH. This policy reform, which will become effective on September 15, will promote condom quality assurance and regulation of condom counterfeiting.
The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF) is a major public-private partnership led by the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom to support implementation of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement. GATF selected Vietnam for its first pilot program in Asia in order to address operational and legal issues and then scale up a program of trade facilitation initiatives. On August 16, Vietnam’s Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Finance to begin work on developing a customs bond system under this pilot program.
USAID’s Partner Capacity Development (PCD) program is working with approximately 15 Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (VNGOs) to build their human and institutional capacity. Over the last 12 months, the program improved the capacity of these organizations through providing a series of trainings on topics such as financial management, human resources, organizational monitoring and evaluation, and fundraising. On August 16-19, a training in this series on the topic of “Project Design and Management” attracted 30 representatives from VNGOs including those representing vulnerable groups in Vietnam such as persons with disabilities, LGBTI, blind and deaf groups.
In collaboration with the Vietnam Authority for AIDS Control (VAAC), the USAID Sustainable HIV Response from Technical Assistance (SHIFT) Project assisted HIV treatment providers in seven Vietnamese provinces (An Giang, Nghe An, Bac Giang, Ha Noi, Thai Binh, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh City) to prepare and counsel patients, evaluate needs, and develop plans to move approximately 4,000 patients to a new ARV regimen (TDF/3TC/EFV) by September 2017.
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