VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong held a meeting with a delegation from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), calling for continued support to expand access to new vaccines and enhance the sustainability of Vietnam’s national immunisation programme.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong has met Chief Programme Officer at Gavi Aurelia Nguyen to discuss current and future support for Vietnam under the Vaccine Alliance’s strategy for assisting middle-income countries in the 2021 - 2025 and 2026 - 2030 periods.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted separate receptions for Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Gerd Müller and Chief Programme Officer at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) Aurélia Nguyen in New York on September 20 (local time).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 13 for Aurélia Nguyen, Chief Programme Strategy Officer at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and former Managing Director of COVAX Facility.

VOV.VN - A plane carrying 2,000,040 doses of Moderna vaccine donated by the US touched down at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on July 10.

Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations, has affirmed that Vietnam together with ASEAN member states and other WTO members support and congratulate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her election as WTO General Director.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is one of the countries that will soon benefit from the first phase of COVID-19 vaccine delivery run by COVAX, a global initiative led by the World Health Organisation and other partners.

VOV.VN - Four local vaccine manufacturers are putting every effort into developing a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, with one of the manufacturers expected to conduct phase one and phase two clinical trials by 2021, according to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long during at a seminar introducing vaccines against COVID-19 on September 30.