Most provinces have run out of the 5-in-1 DPT-VGB-Hib vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Some vaccines are in very limited supply and enough for use until July 2023, such as DPT, tuberculosis (BCG), pertussis (DTaP), and measles-rubella vaccines.
Vietnam has potential to become regional vaccine production centre Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
The workshop, jointly held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI) and the Ministry of Health, aimed to disseminate results on vaccine studies and Việt Nam’s participation in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) mRNA technology transfer programme.
Vietnam can only produce two anti-venom serums against the bites of the Trimeresurus stejnegeri snake and Monocled cobra at a time when the number of snakebite victims has steadily increased.