The US government will provide Vietnam with more than 11,000 sets of personal protective equipment and four sets of laboratory tools to help Vietnamese medical staff handle possible outbreaks of avian flu.
The aid package for fighting A/H5N1 and A/H1N1, worth more than US$100,000 in total, will be conducted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at the request of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, with assistance from the World Health Organization.
These medical kits will be sent to epidemiological establishments, Pasteur institutes, and other localities, which are particularly vulnerable to the epidemics and are short of tools and equipment.
The equipment will help prevent direct contact between humans and the highly contagious A/H5N1virus. It is expected to reduce the risk of transmission between birds and humans as well as among humans.
Since 2005, the US government has provided more than US$50 million in aid for Vietnam to prevent and fight avian flu.
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