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CEDAW and the Law:
Second, the Strategy for Protection and Care of People’s Heath in the 2001-2010
Period 570 lists one of the ‘Health Targets by 2010’ as the target of enhancing equity in the
access to, and use of, health-care services, particularly medical examination and treatment. In
relation to access issues, the ‘Health Targets by 2010’ include: (a) four-and-a-half medical
doctors and one university pharmacist for every 10,000 people; (b) improved quality of medical
examination and treatment, functional rehabilitation and health-care improvement at all
medical levels; and (c) applied scientific and technical advances to develop health-care
services to the level of advanced countries in the region. 571
Major solutions identified to achieve the ‘Health Targets by 2010’ include: (a) prioritizing
investment on particular areas (including increase proportion of regular State expenditure for
health in the total State budget expenditure), prioritizing investment for poor remote and
mountainous regions in prophylactic and traditional medicine activities, primary health-care
activities at grassroots health-care stations, medical examinations and treatment for the poor
and social policy beneficiaries, mother and child care protection; (b) strengthening
organizations that includes developing regional general hospitals in remote and raising the
quality of inter-commune general clinics in remote and mountainous areas; (c) promoting
managerial work including dispatching professional health workers to remote and mountainous
regions running short of health workers; (d) developing health-care personnel; (e)
consolidating and developing grassroots medical establishments including ensuring that: 100
percent of communes have health-care stations suited to economic, geographical,
environmental and ecological conditions, as well as the medical examination and treatment
needs in each region; 80 percent of communes have medical doctors with 60 percent of them
based in mountainous communes; 80 percent of commune health-care stations have
intermediate-level midwives; all health-care stations have assistant pharmacists; 100 percent
of villages and hamlets have regularly health-care workers with primary or higher medical
training); (f) promoting prophylactic medicine and health improvement work including
implement the programme on reproductive health, safe motherhood, basic obstetric care and
family planning services; (g) increasing and diversifying medical examination and treatment
activities including medical establishments of State and branches of semi-public, private and
foreign-invested medical examination and treatment establishments; (h) implementing national
policy on medicines to ensure constant and adequate supply of quality medicines and safe
rational use of medicines; and (i) socializing medical work including diversification of health
care forms to solicit and utilize various investment for health-care services.
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Third, the National Strategy on Reproductive Health Care for the 2001-2010 Period
(National Strategy on Reproductive Health Care) - pursuant to the Decision No. 136/2000/QD-
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Decision No. 35/2001/QD-TTG dated March 19, 2001 Approving the Strategy for the Protection and Care of the People’s
Heath in the 2001-2010 Period
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Among the other targets are: (a) average life expectancy of 71 years; (b) mortality rate of children aged under 1 years
and under 5 years to below 2.5 percent and 3.2 percent respectively for live births; (d) newborn babies weighing under
2,500 g reduced to 6 percent; (e) malnourished children aged under 5 years below 20 percent; (f) average height of
adolescents to reach 1.60 m or higher; (g) reduce morbidity and mortality rates of epidemic diseases (including restraining
rate of HIV/AIDS infection); and (h) prevent, control and manage non-infectious diseases.
Review of key legal documents and compliance with CEDAW