This is one of the notable contents of Decision 588/QD-TTg approving the "Program for Adjusting Birth Rates Suitable for Regions and Subjects until 2030."
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To achieve the goals of this Program, one of the central tasks put forth by the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam is Promote propaganda and behavior change campaigns, specifically:
- Continue to widely and deeply propagate the contents of Resolution 21-NQ/TW on population work in the new situation to create social consensus on shifting population policies from focusing on family planning to comprehensively addressing population issues, including size, structure, distribution, and improving population quality. Special attention should be paid to propagating the shift in population policy from efforts to reduce birth rates to maintaining replacement-level fertility nationwide. At the local level, it is necessary to implement "encouraging fewer children where birth rates are high, maintaining replacement levels where they have been achieved, and encouraging more children where birth rates are low."
- Develop a communication message system and propaganda content suitable for areas with different birth rates.
+ For localities with high birth rates, continue to propagate the benefits of having fewer children for socio-economic development, good child-rearing, and building happy families. Focus on encouraging not to marry and have children too early, not to have children too close together, and not to have many children. The main target audience is couples who have had two children and are considering having more. The slogan is "Stop at two children to raise and educate well."
+ For localities that have reached replacement-level fertility and have low birth rates, the propaganda and advocacy content should focus on the benefits of having two children, the disadvantages of marrying and having children too late, and the impact of having few children on socio-economic development, family life, and care for elderly parents. Emphasize encouraging young men and women not to marry late, not to have children late, for each couple to have two children and raise them well.
- Strengthen diverse, rich, lively, attractive, and persuasive propaganda and advocacy activities. Improve the effectiveness of communication through mass media, paying special attention to the use of multimedia, the internet, and social networks. Appropriately utilize cultural, artistic, and entertainment forms. Promote the role of public influencers, family, and clan leaders such as famous figures in politics, science, culture, arts, sports, village elders, and community leaders. Particularly focus on direct communication activities, especially home and community communication through collaborators, propagandists, and village health workers.
- Innovate comprehensively the content, programs, and methods of education on population and reproductive health inside and outside of schools, appropriate to each educational level and age group within the education system. The goal of population and reproductive health education must ensure equipping learners with fundamental and systematic knowledge and skills about the structure and functioning mechanisms of human reproductive organs, reproductive health care, prevention of unwanted pregnancies, infertility, and sexual transmitted diseases; shaping the value that each family should have two children for the benefit of the family and the sustainable future of the country.
- Pilot and expand the implementation of compulsory pre-marriage education programs for young men and women preparing for marriage. The program must ensure providing young men and women with knowledge about reproductive health care directly related to marital life, child-rearing, family economic management; consolidating the value that each family should have two children, raise them well, and build an equal, prosperous, progressive, and happy family.
Additionally, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam also put forth several measures to concretize support and encouragement policies suitable for the birth rate characteristics of localities with different birth rates, such as providing counseling and marriage and family services: Developing long-term partnership clubs, supporting young men and women in matchmaking; pre-marriage health counseling; encouraging men and women to marry before 30 years old, not marrying late and having children soon, and women having the second child before 35 years old,...
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Nguyen Trinh
