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Submitted by maithuy on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 17:19
The Additional Financing to the Vietnam Avian and Human Influenza Control and Preparedness Project was signed between the World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi on October 21.

Under the project, World Bank will provide US$25 million to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to increase the effectiveness of public services in reducing the health risk to poultry and humans from avian influenza in eleven high priority provinces.

This will be achieved through controlling the disease at source in domestic poultry, early detection and response to poultry and human cases of infection, and preparing for the medical consequences of a human pandemic.

It will support the Vietnamese Government to further improve their responses to the highly pathogenic avian influenza, human influenza, and other newly emerging zoonotic diseases, thereby providing better protection to more than 10 million people living in these eleven provinces. 

This Additional Financing is the third operation that the Bank, in partnership with The Avian and Human Influenza Facility (AHIF) donors, has supported Vietnam in controlling the highly pathogenic avian influenza and improving the country’s preparedness for human influenza pandemic.

The first two operations with a total funding of US$40 million were successfully implemented during the period of 2004 to 2011, including the Avian Influenza Emergency Recovery Project (AIERP) and the Vietnam Avian and Human Influenza Control and Preparedness Project (VAHIP).

Vietnam was among the countries that was most affected by avian influenza (H5N1). The first human case was reported in 2003. As of March 2011, Vietnam has confirmed 119 human cases of H5N1, of which 59 were fatal. This represents 23 percent of the total number of human cases reported worldwide and 19 percent of the deaths.

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