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Voices from Vietnamese young people on Adolescent Pregnancy

24/12/2015

Viet Nam has entered a demographic bonus period, with the highest proportion of young people ever recorded in the country. Today, young people aged 14 to 25 account for one-third of Viet Nam's total population. However, one-third of young people still face challenges in accessing sexual and reproductive health information and services. The unmet need for contraceptives among unmarried young people is around 35%, while this rate is only 10% for married people.

This video, developed by the UNFPA in Viet Nam in July 2013 is a call from Vietnamese youth for more greater efforts in ensuring comprehensive sexuality education and access to quality sexual and reproductive health information and services.

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World Population Day: Interview of the UNFPA Representative in Viet Nam with VTC10

24/12/2015

HA NOI, 11 July 2013 – In the past decade, although Viet Nam has made impressive progress on reducing maternal mortality and increasing access to reproductive health and family planning services, more than a third of young Vietnamese still lack access to the contraception they need. As a result, the rates of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions are still high amongst young girls, especially those who are unmarried.

VTC10-NetViet reporter had a talk with Mr. Arthur Erken, UNFPA representative in Viet Nam on the occasion of World Population Day. This year's theme was adolescent pregnancy. Mr. Erken shares his opinion about the situation in Viet Nam as well as in other countries.

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International Youth Day: VTC10 Interview with Mr. Arthur Erken, UNFPA Representative in Viet Nam

24/12/2015

HA NOI, 12 August 2013 – Today marks the International Youth Day, and this year the focus is on the issue of youth migration. Young people, aged 10-29 years old, make up approximately 38 per cent of the total population of Viet Nam, recording the highest proportion of young people ever in the country's history. This provides a unique and one-off economic opportunity for Viet Nam’s development, but also creates enormous challenges for the country. If Viet Nam wants to reap the full benefits of this demographic window of opportunity, investing in the education and health, including the sexual and reproductive health, of adolescents and young people is paramount.

VTC10-NetViet reporter had an interview with Mr. Arthur Erken, UNFPA representative in Viet Nam on the occasion of International Youth Day. Mr. Erken shares his opinion about the situation of young migrants in accessing to sexual and reproductive health information and services in Viet Nam.

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Population Ageing in Viet Nam: Opportunities, challenges and the way forward

24/12/2015

The world is growing old fast. In the next 10 years, the number of people over 60 years of age will surpass one billion. Population ageing presents societies with great opportunities but also huge challenges. Viet Nam's population is among the fastest ageing countries in Asia. In 2012, the proportion of older persons in the total population is 10.2 per cent. 

UNFPA in Viet Nam in collaboration with the Ministry of Health organized a national workshop in September 2013 to share international experiences on policy and action responses to population ageing. This video was produced by UNFPA in Viet Nam in December 2013 to share international and national experiences and recommendations for Viet Nam to address the issue.

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Statistical Training in Universities: Opportunities, challenges and the way forward

24/12/2015

Over the past years, Viet Nam's statistics has been improved to ensure providing statistics data and information to the Government, ministries and data users. In the context that Viet Nam is integrating into the changing and dynamic world, the need to use reliable statistical data as evidence in planning, monitoring and evaluation of development policies at both micro and macro levels is on the rise. Experiences shared by international experts and inputs from the national experts from various universities in Viet Nam during

 
 

the workshop organized in Ha Noi in November 2013 created a unique opportunity for Viet Nam to review the current status of statistics training in its universities, identify opportunities and challenges as well as provide recommendations to further strengthen the country's human resource in this important field. This video was produced by UNFPA in Viet Nam in December 2013.

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Intergrating population into socio-economic planning

24/12/2015

Population and development are closely related. Integrating population variables into development planning will help utilize population strengths to achieve sustainable development. Such development must also respond to population changes to meet the needs of current and future population groups, promote social equity and alleviate poverty through sustainable economic growth in the context of sustainable development. 

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Nam became a lower middle-income country in 2010 and has continued to maintain impressive growth rates over the past few years. Therefore Viet Nam is expected to achieve all MDGs by 2015. However there remain significant gaps in the level of MDGs achieved between rural and urban areas, geographical regions and population groups. This requires further efforts to ensure all policy-makers fully understand the importance of integrating population factors in development planning and making it an integral part of policy-making and planning at national and local levels.

This video was produced by UNFPA in Viet Nam in September 2014. Click here to watch this video.

 

TV Talk-show on the International Day of the Girl Child

24/12/2015

On the International Day of the Girl Child (11 October), Mr. Arthur Erken, UNFPA Rpresentative in Viet Nam had a talk with the Viet Nam News TV. Mr. Erken highlighted the issue of Sex Ratio at Birth imbalance in Viet Nam and called for more concerted efforts to bring an end to this serious problem.

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Story of a Girl Child

24/12/2015

"When I was inside your womb, I felt your care and love given to me each day.
When you discovered I was not the son you and Dad had dreamed of,
You suffered shame and ridicule from relatives and neighbours in the village.
I realized your pain in having to decide to have a son or a daughter;
One day, you intended to leave me. But finally, you and Dad decided to let me live and grow.
I promised myself that I would always love, respect and reciprocate your and Dad's care and love for me..."

 
These are lyrics from "Story of a Girl Child", a song by Miss Vu Thao My, the 17 year-old winner of the popular TV singing competition The Voice Viet Nam 2013.

Produced by UNFPA in Viet Nam on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, marked internationally on 11 October, the song sheds light on the painful issue of son preference.

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VTV interview on WPD 2015

24/12/2015

On the occasion of the World Population Day 11/7/2015, Ms. Ritsu Nacken, Representative a.i. in Viet Nam had interviews with VTV1 and VTC10 about the theme of the World Population Day "Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies". Ms. Nacken also talked about the dignity kit that UNFPA provided to women and girls of reproductive ages, who affected by the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015.

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