VN shows determination to fight back TB
VGP - The 18th meeting of the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board was held today by the Vietnamese Ministry of Health in Hà Nội to map out concrete strategies for the battle against the serious disease.
As reported by the Stop
TB Partnership, nearly two million people died of Tuberculosis
(TB) each year throughout past 50 years.
Deputy PM Nguyễn Thiện Nhân says, at the 18th meeting of the Stop TB
Partnership Coordinating Board, held in Hà Nội on May 4, 2010, that Việt Nam will
support all global activities to fight back TB – Photo: VGP/Từ Lương
Việt
Addressing the event, Deputy PM Nguyễn Thiện Nhân made
clear that the Government’s roles are to protect good health for its people and
to particularly fight back TB disease.
The Government has recently passed the Law on Health
Insurance to make sure that its entire people can be taken care by health
services. More governmental bonds have been also issued to attract investments
for health sector.
He applauded all social activities taken by the Stop TB Partnership to raise
public awareness of the worldwide prevention and treatment of the disease, as
well as the proposals of new and innovative TB treatment techniques.
Việt
The
Stop TB Partnership was established in 2001 building upon the Stop TB
Initiative that was launched by WHO in 1998 and following a call at the
Amsterdam Ministerial Conference in 2000. Its aim is to realize the goal of
eliminating TB as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world
free of TB. It comprises a network of international organizations, countries,
donors from the public and private sectors, governmental and nongovernmental
organizations and individuals that have expressed an interest in working
together to achieve this goal.