THE PRIME MINISTER

DECIDES:

Article 1.- To approve the national target program on prevention and control of a number of social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS in the 2006-2010 period with the following principal contents:

1. Program title: Prevention and control of a number of social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS.

2. Managing agency: The Ministry of Health.

3. Coordinating agencies: Concerned ministries, branches and localities.

4. Scope of program implementation: Provinces and cities nationwide.

5. General objectives: To proactively prevent and combat a number of social diseases and dangerous epidemics. To early detect epidemics, promptly zone off and stamp out epidemics to avoid major outbreaks. To reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of a number of social diseases and dangerous epidemics. To raise public awareness about protection and care of people's health to meet requirements of industrialization, modernization and national construction and defense.

6. Up-to-2010 objectives of projects under the national target program on prevention and control of a number of social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS:

a/ Tuberculosis prevention and control project:

- To reduce the new infection rate of tuberculosis AFB(+) to 70/100,000 persons;

- To reduce the mortality and infection rates of tuberculosis, to prevent drug-resistant tuberculosis.

b/ Leprosy prevention and control project:

- To eradicate leprosy under four Vietnamese criteria;

- 100% disabled leprosy patients will receive treatment and functional rehabilitation.

c/ Malaria prevention and control project:

- To prevent major malaria outbreaks;

- To reduce the malaria morbidity rate to under 1.5/1,000 persons; to reduce the mortality rate to under 0.03/100,000 persons.

d/ Cancer prevention and control project:

- To gradually reduce the cancer morbidity and mortality rates;

- To improve the living quality of cancer patients.

e/ HIV/AIDS prevention and control project:

- To limit the HIV/AIDS infection rate to under 0.3% of the population by 2010;

- To reduce adverse impacts of HIV/AIDS on socio-economic development.

f/ Child malnutrition prevention and control project:

- To reduce the rate of underweight malnutrition to less than 20% of under-5 children; to reduce the rate of undersized malnutrition to less than 25% of under-5 children;

- To continue propagation, mobilization, monitoring and supervision of iodine salt consumption.

g/ Community mental health protection project:

- 100% of provinces/cities will implement the project; 70% of wards/communes will integrate community mental healthcare into activities of grassroots health clinics;

- To detect and manage community-based treatment for 50% of mental disease patients (schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy);

- To treat 70% of diagnosed mental disease patients back to stable conditions; to assist these patients in integrating into their families and communities.

h/ Reproductive health care project:

- To improve the health of mothers and children;

- To reduce the maternal mortality rate to 70/100,000 live births; to reduce the mortality rate of under-1 children to less than 25' of live newborns.

i/ Expanded project on immunization:

- To protect the achievement of poliomyelitis eradication; to eliminate neonatal tetanus;

- Over 90% of under-1 children in urban and rural districts will fully receive seven vaccines (tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B and measles); to eradicate measles by 2010;

- To step by step immunize under-5 children with Japanese encephalitis B vaccine, to immunize children in high-risk areas with typhoid and cholera vaccines;

- To reduce the diphtheria morbidity rate to 0.01/100,000 persons, and whooping cough morbidity rate to 0.1/100,000 persons, through booster vaccination of DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus);

- To study a number of new vaccines for children.

j/ Civil and army medical service combination project: To protect and care the health of the people and the army and contribute to consolidating national defense and security in mountainous, deep-lying, remote, border and island areas.

7. Organization of implementation:

The Ministry of Health shall:

- Establish the Committee for the national target program on prevention and control of a number of social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS in the 2006-2010 period with the Ministry leader as its head and directors of departments and institutes and heads of concerned units as its members;

- Set up directorates of the projects under this program. To direct heads of project directorates to elaborate these projects and submit them for approval according to regulations;

- Assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with relevant ministries, branches and localities in, implementing this program. The program implementation must be integrated into other socio-economic programs to raise its effectiveness.

8. Funds for implementation

- The state budget, including funds for capital construction investment and non-business activities;

- ODA capital and other sources of international aid;

- Other lawful capital sources.

Article 2.- Program management and implementation mechanism

The mechanism for managing and implementing the national target program on prevention and control of a number of social diseases, dangerous epidemics and HIV/AIDS in the 2006-2010 period complies with regulations on management and implementation of national target programs and relevant current regulations.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance shall coordinate with the Ministry of Health in allocating funds in annual state budget estimates under the Law on State Budget and, at the same time, adopting mechanisms and policies to mobilize resources for the program implementation.

Pursuant to current regulations and within the ambit of their functions, the Ministries of Health; Planning and Investment; and Finance shall provide specific guidance for ministries, branches and localities to implement this program.

Article 3.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its publication in "CONG BAO."

Article 4.- Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, and presidents of provincial/municipal People's Committees shall implement this Decision.