THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 190/2001/QD-TTg
Hanoi, December 13, 2001
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM TO PREVENT AND COMBAT SOME SOCIAL DISEASES, DANGEROUS EPIDEMICS AND HIV/AIDS IN THE 2001-2005 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Law on Protection of People’s Health of June 30, 1999;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 71/2001/QD-TTg of May 4, 2001 on the national target programs in the 2001-2005 period;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the national target program to prevent and combat some social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS in the 2001-2005 period, with the following main contents:
1. The program’s name: The Program to prevent and combat some social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS.
2. The managing agency: The Ministry of Health.
3. Coordinating agencies: The concerned ministries and branches as well as localities which manage and organize the implementation of projects under the program.
4. The program’s scope: Provinces and cities throughout the country.
5. Overall objectives: To firmly maintain the results obtained in the past years. To take initiative in preventing, fighting and promptly stamping out epidemics if they occur. To reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of some social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS, increase the people’s life expectancy and develop our race, thus contributing to achieving social justice in healthcare and economic growth, firmly maintaining political security in all geographical areas, especially in mountainous, deep-lying and remote areas, as well as border regions and off-shore islands.
6. By 2005-targets of projects under the Program to prevent and combat some social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS:
6.1. The project to prevent and fight malaria:
- To reduce the malaria morbidity rate to below 0.41% of the population, to reduce the malaria mortality rate to 0.15/100,000 persons.
- 60-70 million tours of people shall be protected with chemicals (spraying and impregnating mosquito nets with chemicals); 15-20 million tours of malaria patients shall be treated.
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