Child health

General information

• Fact sheet on child health

Latest news and press releases

• Pneumonia remains the leading killer of children despite decline in global child deaths
  11 November 2012
• WHO calls for expanded nutrition interventions to avert child deaths
  24 September 2012
• World breastfeeding week 2012 - A call for joint action to promote breastfeeding and contribute to reducing child malnutrition in Viet Nam
  30 July 2012

Partners and links

• Ministry of Health (Maternal and Child Health Department)
• National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (Integrated Management of Childhood Illness office)
• United Nations Children's Fund
• National Hospital of Pediatrics
• Save the Children
• Children Hospital Number I Ho Chi Minh City
• Children Hospital Number II Ho Chi Minh City

Prevention, treatment and awareness

Essential newborn care course

• Caring for the newborn at home:A training course for community health workers
• Manual for the community health worker: Caring for the sick child in the community
• Computerized tools for training on IMCI for health workers

Publications and documents

Essential interventions, commodities and guidelines for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health

A global review of the key interventions related to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child Health

• WHO/UNICEF regional child survival strategy: Accelerated and sustained action towards MDG 4
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  This joint WHO/UNICEF strategy offers a unified direction and a description of the actions necessary to successfully implement children life-saving interventions, making concrete the commitment of all Member States to the development goals of the United Nations Millennium Declaration,most specifically Millennium Development Goal 4: reduce child mortality.

• Viet Nam national plan of action for child survival
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  The objective of this strategy is to maintain and expand the coverage of essential interventions for child survival in order to decrease disparities, improve child health, and reduce child mortalities in all population groups and regions of Viet Nam, towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4 - "reducing child mortality” by the year 2015.
• Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
• Pneumonia progress report 2012