NDO - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the World Bank have jointly launched a knowledge-sharing programme to assist Vietnam to develop new models of elderly care services. 

NDO/VNA – More than 500 Buddhist monks, nuns and followers registered for blood donation while 150 people put their names on the list of organ donors at a festival in Hanoi on August 4. 

NDO/VNA – The Vietnam Red Cross Society and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will work together to organise a blood donation and organ donation registration festival at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Soc Son district of Hanoi on August 4. 

NDO – The largest humanitarian blood donation campaign of the year, known as Red Journey, organised 58 official donation collection points and 207 mobile blood donation points, receiving over 85,000 units of blood. 

NDO - A research group from the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has completed their research into a vaccine against dengue fever, which is awaiting approval from an ethics council before being put into use. 

NDO/VNA - The seventh Red Journey blood donation campaign 2019 opened in Hanoi on July 26 with a series of activities. 

NDO – Vietnam has strengthened control measures in preventing Ebola from entering Vietnam by closely monitoring immigrants, especially those arriving from countries with Ebola outbreaks. 

NDO – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the US-based pharmaceutical company Merc Sharp & Dohme (MSD) Asia in Vietnam on July 24 signed a technical cooperation agreement aimed at supporting the Vietnamese Ministry of Health to implement a human papillomaviruses (HPV) vaccination programme in Vietnam from 2019-2021. 

NDO – Localities need to urgently deploy effective solutions to control dengue fever and reduce the number of infections, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has urged. 

NDO – The Hanoi Oncology Hospital, Seongnam city and Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, under the Daejin Medical Foundation from the Republic of Korea, have reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on promoting health worker training. 

NDO - A project entitled "Research on the Vietnamese genome", the first massive database of Vietnamese genomes, has just been revealed by the Vinmec Medical System’s research group. 

NDO/VNA – The Central Paediatrics Hospital must always be a top trusted referral in this field throughout the country so as to become an advanced and high-quality establishment in the region and the world over, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on July 13. 

NDO – A ceremony was held in Soc Trang province on July 6 to start the construction of the Phuong Chau International Hospital. 

NDO – Red Journey blood donation campaign 2019 is organised in five provinces and cities, including Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Tuyen Quang and Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to attract the attention to of the public to the humanitarian movement.