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Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…

by Thu HangA client attends a reproductive health and family planning consultation at Truong An Commune's medical centre in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Province of Vinh Long, which is part of the Government social franchise network Tinh chi em (Sisterhood). — VNA/VNS Photo Thu…

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment Eni F.H. Faleomavaega and congressman Bob Filner affirmed the support during meetings with a delegation of the Vietnam Association for Victims of…

Hanoi (VNA) Vietnam may not achieve its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on halting and reserving the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 unless greater efforts of all stakeholders are mobilised. The warning is given in the recently-released national report on 2008 MDGs. The report said by…

Original Source VietNamNet Bridge – A seminar on computing for remote diagnosis and medical information management was held jointly by the US Atlantic Philanthropies (A.P) and the Health Department of Thua Thien-Hue Province in Hue City on March 24. The function was attended by representatives of…

Original Source Central Thua Thien - Hue province received a US-based Atlantic Philanthropies-funded project to improve maternal and infant health on March 17. The 425,000 USD project will be implemented at provincial hospitals and in A Luoi and Phong Dien districts from now till the…

Original Source Thua Thien-Hue (VNA)- The US-based Atlantic Philanthropies organisation has agreed to fund a 12 million USD project to upgrade and refurbish medical stations in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, according to a provincial official on Dec. 11. The Director of Thua Thien-Hue…

Original Source Da Nang, August 15 (VNA) - The East Meets West (EMW) Foundation marked the 20th anniversary of its operation start-up in Vietnam on August 15, announcing it doled out 55 million USD for charity activities during the period. Focusing on education, health care,…

Original Source VietNamNet Bridge Two hospitals in central Quang Ngai Province kicked off construction and upgrade of their rehabilitation centres on August 4 with assistance from the East Meets West Foundation (EMW). The construction is part of EMW's Support Network for People with Disabilities (SN-PWD)…

The World Bank will provide Vietnam with 755.6 million SDR (equivalent to 1.2 billion USD) in aid from the International Development Assistance (IDA) source for the 2009 fiscal year. The WB Executive Director in charge of Southeast Asia, Mat Aron Deraman, announced the decision at…