Vietnam: Reproductive health care and family planning measures

According to Article 13 of the Decree No. 104/2003/NĐ-CP of the Government of Vietnam, measures to adjust the population size include:

- Elaborating, and organizing the implementation of, programs, projects and plans on socio-economic development, hunger elimination, poverty reduction, raising of people’s material and spiritual life, contributing to adjustment of the population size suitable to the socio-economic development in the new period.

- Elaborating, and organizing the implementation of, programs, projects and plans on reproductive healthcare and/or family planning to build up families with few children, firmly maintain the rate of substituting births in order to stabilize the rational population size.

Moreover, Article 14 of the Decree No. 104/2003/NĐ-CP of the Government of Vietnam stipulates objectives of productive healthcare, family planning as following:

- To ensure conditions for individuals and couples to attain the objectives of the population policy; women to give birth to children within the age bracket of twenty two and thirty five; to select the interval of three to five years between childbirths; to apply contraceptive methods suitable to the economic, health, psychological and other conditions of each individual, each couple.

- To raise the health of people, particularly minors, pregnant women, nursing women; to reduce the morbidity and mortality rates among mothers and infants; to apply measures to prevent, combat and treat reproductively infectious diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS.

Besides, Article 15 of the Decree No. 104/2003/NĐ-CP of the Government of Vietnam specifies reproductive health care and family planning measures as follows:

- To propagate to and educate people in reproductive healthcare, family planning, particularly to propagate to and educate minors in reproductive healthcare.

- To provide directly to people services on reproductive healthcare and family planning in a diversified, qualitative, convenient and safe manner.

- To encourage material and spiritual incentives; to adopt social policies to step up the implementation of reproductive healthcare and family planning among people.

- To raise the capability of organizing and implementing programs, projects and plans on reproductive healthcare and family planning.

- To detect and handle in time acts of law violation in reproductive healthcare and family planning.

More details at the Decree No. 104/2003/NĐ-CP of the Government of Vietnam, effective from October 03, 2003.

Le Vy

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