HÀ NỘI — Poor and marginalised communities in Việt Nam and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region lack access to good quality health services, especially in sexual and reproductive health. While rapid growth in the region has lifted millions from poverty, the benefits and costs of development are not equitably shared among countries and population groups, according to experts at the 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights. The event was hosted by the Việt Nam Public Health Association yesterday in Hạ Long City in northeastern Quảng Ninh Province. The three-day event, which will conclude on November 30, attracted around 1,000 delegates from over 40 countries. It will seek to advance the implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and contribute to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, underpinned by the Sustainable Development … [Read more...] about Region’s poor lack reproductive health access
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Leading Path of Innovation to Promote Health Industry
Beijing Rogrand E-Commerce Co., Ltd. is a specialized pharmaceutical e-commerce service company in China, licensed with the Internet Drug Transaction Services Certificate. The company currently owns and operates the largest e-commerce platform in China for pharmaceutical supply chain, providing services and system support for clients with different needs –third-party B2B platform "mypharma.com", SAAS system "Fiiga" for terminal pharmacies and "My Clinic" mobile service platform for terminal clinics.Rogrand EC was founded by Ms. Xiaofei Yao in 2011, and she led the team growing from 30 to 400 people in less than 3 years. The company now covers 28 provinces throughout the country, serving more than 100 industrial pharmaceutical companies, 1,500 commercial pharmaceutical companies, and 15,000 pharmacies. Rogrand EC, as the only pharmaceutical supply chain platform servicing the whole industry chain and covering the whole country, had achieved a … [Read more...] about Leading Path of Innovation to Promote Health Industry
Quang Ninh hosts regional reproductive, sexual health conference
Quang Ninh (VNA) - The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Reproductive and SexualHealth and Rights (APCRSHR) kicked off in the northern province of Quang Ninhon November 28.With the themeof “Leave No One Behind! Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Health”, thefunction attracted nearly 1,000 delegates, including scientists, researchers, educators,youths and representatives of organisations and community groups from 40countries in the region. At theconference, Dr Rosalia Sciortino from the Institute for Population and SocialResearch at Mahidol University, stressed development gaps amid rapid growthacross the Asia-Pacific have minimised poor and disadvantaged people’s chancesto access high-quality healthcare services, particularly sexual andreproductive health.She expectedthat the event will help speed up the review of policies and practices to bringjustice to sexual and reproductive health, ensuring that no one was leftbehind.Vietnamese DeputyMinister of Health Nguyen Viet … [Read more...] about Quang Ninh hosts regional reproductive, sexual health conference
Health and education sectors top list for sexual harassment
A survey carried out by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (Molisa) has shown that the health and education sectors faced the highest cases of sexual harassment. Employers engaged in harassment may be fined VND50-70 million Nguyen Thi Dieu Hong, representative of the research team of the ministry's Gender Equality Department announced the findings after they conducted a survey of over 100 people and held various group discussions. The victims were mostly female subordinates in health and education sectors. However, receptionists, secretaries or cleaners were the most targeted. "University students reported that they saw teachers harassing each other or harassing cleaners or students. People also reported many harassment cases when they went to take medical exams at hospitals but most of these people did not want to make a major issue of the situation. Currently we still don't have any solid regulations and that scares people," … [Read more...] about Health and education sectors top list for sexual harassment
Quang Ninh hosts forum on reproductive, sexual health
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Quang Ninh (VNA) – A forum on reproductive and sexual health and rights ofyoung people was held in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh onNovember 27.The event was asideline activity of the ongoing ninth Asia Pacific conference on reproductiveand sexual health and rights (APCRSHP), scheduled for November 28-30.Bjorn Andersson,Asia Pacific Regional Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),said the conference has the theme “Leave no one behind! Justice in sexual andreproductive health”.He underlined the need forinvestment in reproductive health care and gender education, particularly atprimary level, to help children respect each other while improving theircommunicative skills.Legal framework should bedeveloped and enforced to ensure that teenagers and youths are well taken careof in terms of reproductive and sexual health, and that their rights on theissues are fully implemented, according to … [Read more...] about Quang Ninh hosts forum on reproductive, sexual health