1. Tobacco control program

• February 6th, 2017 – Meeting with new Director of Tobacco Control Department of The Union.
• 9th March , 2017 – Meeting with Vice president of People Committee about tobacco control program in Dong Thap province.
• March, 2017 – Training courses on communication skills and guiding to health care for Senior public health volunteers in Thai Binh and Dong Thap provinces
• March 2017 – Closing workshop: Senior public health volunteers activities in Dong Thap from 2016 to quarter 1 of 2017

2. The 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights

• 23^rd and 29^th of March, 2017 –  Training workshop on improving writing skill for abstract submission to international conferences
• 28^th March , 2017 - The 3rd meeting of the National Steering Committee

3. Other events

• February and March, 2017 – Training class for children about preventing sexual abuse by YPEER

4. Up-coming events

In summary, all agencies and organization agreed that their interest is tobacco control activities, particularly with the confirmation from Mr. Doan Tan Buu – Vice President of Dong Thap People’s Committee.

For details information about the meeting, please click here.

The Vietnam Public Health Association has conducted two series of training courses, during March 2017, about communication skills on tobacco control and guiding to health care for Senior Public Health Volunteers (SPHVs) in Thai Binh and Dong Thap.

These activities received the enthusiastic participation from SPHVs from two provinces. After participating in guiding activities, sharing experiences, and group discussions, the SPHVs had changes to exchange their acquired knowledge from trainers that assisted in the communication activities in their area.

From February of 2017, a series of extra-curricular classes called “Our body – our safety” was implemented; they are integrated learning activities for students ages four to ten and are conducted by YPPER. The Vietnam Public Health Association is organized with the participation of students from primary schools in Hanoi. The main purpose of these activities is promoting comprehensive age-appropriate sex education among children. The program attracted more than a hundred children participated in up to now.

The lesson is not too long (40 – 90 minutes) with the activities integrating English through song, drawing, groups activities with the guidelines for protecting themselves through cartoon or performing. The knowledge is brief and easy to understand to help young people recognize what is private in their body, the similarity in the privacy of girl and boy. Warning situations that identify the risk of harassment and abuse and determine what to do in such situations. “No mean no” is the definitive answer in these situations, screaming, calling for helps and running to find a responsible adult is essential for a baby.