Friday, October 21, 2011

Vietnam: $25M USD Project Between World Bank & Bank of Vietnam To Prevent #H5N1 #Birdflu

On 21/10, the World Bank (WB) and State Bank of Vietnam has signed agreements for additional financing project to prevent bird flu and human flu in Vietnam.

According to this new financial agreement, 25 million USD will be sent to the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in order to minimize risks to the health of people and poultry for influenza in 11 key provinces, disease control through the spot for family poultry farming in detecting and responding to early for these cases of human influenza and poultry and prepare to deal with the consequences of health due to flu pandemic cause in humans.

According to the WB, this Agreement will support the Government of Vietnam continues to develop past the bar to improve measures to cope with the strains of influenza highly pathogenic avian, human flu, and infectious diseases others from animals to emerge, the measure added protection to 10 million people living in 11 provinces with the project.

This is a financial agreement for the third time that the World Bank together with the sponsors of the Trust Fund for anti-bird flu and human flu (AHIF) Viet Nam supports the anti-bird flu strain highly toxic and improved Backup flu pandemic in humans in Vietnam.

Two previous financial agreement (with a total funding of 40 million USD) has been made successfully in the period from 2004 to 2011, including for emergency repairs project HPAI (AIERP) and Project Office against bird flu and human flu pandemic prevention in Vietnam (VAHIF).

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