Over EUR1.2 million for reproductive health care of working women

10:04, 17/04/2013

Dong Nai has received a project on providing reproductive health care for at least 16,000 women workers in Dong Nai and the neighbouring province of Binh Duong until 2015.

Dong Nai has received a project on providing reproductive health care for at least 16,000 women workers in Dong Nai and the neighbouring province of Binh Duong until 2015.

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Signing ceremony of project to provide reproductive health care for workers in Dong Nai and Binh Duong provinces.

The European Union will fund 75 percent of the project’s total budget of more than EUR1.2 million, which was signed on April 15 between Marie Stopes International Organisation in Vietnam, the Community Reproductive Health Centre and Dong Nai Department of Health.

The project will help improve the capacity of 40 public and private health care establishments in order to create a network providing quality services relating to reproductive health and birth-control, at acceptable expenses for workers and the local population in the two provinces.

After having been tested in Dong Nai and Binh Duong province, the model will be applied at other businesses through the nation.

Educational activities will also be carried out to increase workers’ awareness of reproductive health and birth-control through peer education networks.

There will be a hotline service to help worker understand the importance and the availability of the reproductive health care services in the province.

(Source: VOV)