VOV.VN - UNICEF, the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly held a celebration for the Safe Journeys campaign to wrap up nine months of work to publicise the importance of COVID-19 preventive measures in Vietnam.

More than 15,000 factory workers at high risk of HIV infection have access to HIV prevention and treatment services through an HIV prevention intervention model called SAFE-ZONE, according to the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC).

A seminar to share experience in building safe campus in universities has been organised by the Centre for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women and Adolescents (CSAGA), the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) office in Vietnam in conjunction with Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on November 17 ordered raising public awareness of child abuse acts and punishments against violation of children’s rights, thereby building a safe and child-friendly living environment.

VOV.VN - Hundreds of thousands of elderly, children, handicapped people in Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue provinces have been brought to safe places before super typhoon Noru hits the mainland on September 27 night.

VOV.VN - Localities from Thua Thien-Hue to Binh Dinh have guided thousands of vessels to urgently seek safe shelter, while residents have quickly sought measures aimed at protecting their houses against Super Typhoon Noru which is currently heading towards the central coast of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on September 21 received the 2020 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for their efforts to improve road safety in Vietnam and globally.

Vietnam is basically assessed as a COVID-19 ‘green zone’ – an area where the coronavirus is under control, the Ministry of Health has announced.

A project to strengthen the safe agricultural value chains in northern localities has been jointly launched by the National Agricultural Extension Centre (NAEC) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Nguyen Trung Khanh, General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has stressed the need for ministries, agencies and localities to observe regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control unanimously as the country fully opens its doors to international tourists from March 15.