[health-vn] Alcohol in Vietnam

[Vinh Nguyen]

Dear anh Hong Phong and All,

 

I am sorry if this message bothers you. But I am very happy and must write to resonate the great importance and necessity of such research. Drinking and smoking are among the current most serious problems in terms of public health and socio-economic development in Vietnam. Alcohol-drinking and/or smoking directly has been kills or disabled many people, especially the young, future of a nation, via traffic accidents and other direct or indirect causes. Just yesterday, my colleagues observed a terrible heart-breaking accident on the rural road in Ninh Thuan that instantly killed a wife and seriously injured the driving drunken husband. I am not sure about present situation of the poor guy that was took to the hospital soon after the self-accident. I hope your research results can help inform the public and policy/decision makers regarding such problem in Vietnam.

 

Best of lucks with your research. And by the way, I wish a good health to All!

Vinh

 

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Nguyen Xuan Vinh

Acting Head of Department of Ecology

Institute of Tropical Biology

Address of Section for Ecology, Resources and Environment Studies (SIERES):

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From: health-vn-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:health-vn-bounces at anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Vu Hong Phong
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:34 AM
To: [health-vn discussion group]; vern at coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject: [health-vn] Alcohol in Vietnam

 



Dear All,

My name is Hong Phong. I am doing a doctoral research in alcohol consumption, its meanings and impacts, in rural area of Vietnam.

I would be very happy if any of you can tell  or send me relevant information or articles or reports on production, consumption, cultural meanings of alcohol in Vietnam. I am especially interested in alcohol consumption in rural areas, migrants, mixed ethnic communities.

Thank you very much in advance,

Sincerely,

Vu Hong Phong
PhD Student,
Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK 


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Subject: [health-vn] Funding for AIDS drugs suffering due to global financial crisis, say UN agencies
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=30612&Cr=&Cr1=


  


Funding for AIDS drugs suffering due to global financial crisis, say UN


agencies


  


  


A health worker counselling women about HIV/AIDS treatment


  


28 April 2009 – A new United Nations study finds that the global financial 


crisis is impacting the ability of people with HIV to obtain life-saving drugs,


  


a serious concern given that some two thirds of those in need of such 


medications still do not get them.


  


A survey
 conducted last month by the World Bank, the World Health Organization 


(WHO) and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) found that 8 out of 69 


countries already face shortages of antiretroviral drugs or other disruptions


to 


AIDS treatment.


  


The results of the survey, published in the report “Averting a Human Crisis 


during the Global Downturn: Policy Options from the World Bank’s Human 


Development Network,” also show that respondents in 22 countries in Africa,


the 


Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and Asia and Pacific expect the crisis to 


impact treatment programmes over the coming year.


  


Together, these countries are home to more than 60 per cent of people worldwide


  


on antiretroviral treatment.


  


Although the number of people receiving treatment globally has expanded 


recently, two thirds of those in need of such drugs still do not get them, and 


the current economic downturn
 could worsen the situation, including by


impacting 


prevention programmes.


  


“This new report shows that people on AIDS treatment could be in danger of 


losing their place in the lifeboat,” says Joy Phumaphi, the World Bank’s


Vice 


President for Human Development and former Health Minister for Botswana.


  


“We cannot afford a ‘lost’ generation of people as a result of this


crisis,” Ms. 


Phumaphi adds. “It is essential that developing countries and aid donors act


now 


to protect and expand their spending on health, education and other basic


social 


services and target these efforts to make sure they reach the poorest and most 


vulnerable groups.”


  


The Bank is encouraging countries which depend extensively on external donor 


AIDS financing to identify impending cash shortages as far as possible in 


advance, and to liaise with the Bank and other partners to help to mobilize
 


‘bridge financing’ that prevents interruptions to AIDS treatment.


  


It also warns that maintaining and expanding effective HIV prevention


programmes 


during the current crisis is essential to guard against a resurgence of new 


infections.


  


Providing universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support 


services to those in need by 2010 is one of several targets world leaders 


committed themselves to as part of the anti-poverty objectives known as the 


Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).


  


To assist countries during the current downturn, the World Bank last week 


announced it was mobilizing up to $3.1 billion this year in health financing to


  


help poor countries battle threats to their social services, and doubling its 


education financing in low- and middle-income countries to $4.09 billion.


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