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GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence – Freedom - Happiness
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No. 21/2001/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, February 22,
2001
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DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL STRATEGY ON NUTRITION FOR THE PERIOD
2001-2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
- Pursuant
to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30th,
1992;
- Pursuant to the Law on Protection of
People's Health of June 30th, 2000;
- At the proposal of the Minister of
Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1
To ratify the national strategy on nutrition for the 2001-2010 period
with the following principal contents:
1. Objectives
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To ensure that by the year 2010 the people's nutrition shall be markedly improved.
Family members, first of all children and mothers, shall be rationally reared
and cared for, meals of people in all regions shall be more quantitatively
adequate and further qualitatively improved, meeting the hygienic safety
standards. To restrict the newly arising nutrition-related health problems
b. Specific
objectives:
- People shall have their knowledge about nutrition elevated and be
encouraged to practice a rational nutrition regime.
Targets:
+ The rate of mothers who are knowledgeable about and practice a proper
nutrition regime for sick children to increase from 20.2% in 2000 to 40% by
2005 and 60% by 2010.
+ The rate of mothers who totally breast feed their infants within the first
four months to rise from 31.1% in 2000 to 45% by 2005 and 60% by 2010.
+ The rate of female youngsters trained in nutrition and provided
motherhood knowledge to reach 25% by 2005 and 40% by 2010.
- To reduce the malnutrition rate of children and mothers:
Targets:
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+ The height malnutrition rate according to age among under-5 children in
the whole country to drop by 1.5% annually.
+ The rate of newborns weighing under 2,500 grain to reduce to 7% by 2005
and 6% by 2010.
+ The rate of prolonged energy deficiency among women of the fertility
age in the whole country to drop by 1% annually.
+ The rate of over-weight under-5 children to drop to under 5%.
- To basically eliminate the state of vitamin A and iodine deficiency and
to substantially reduce the nutrition related anemia
Targets:
+ To keep the rate of active corneal zero-ulceration caused by vitamin A
deficiency among under-5 children always below that of community health
significance.
+ To reduce the vitamin A deficiency of the pre-clinical type: the rate
of under-5 children with a low vitamin A content in serum to under 8% by 2005 and
under 5% by 2010.
+ To basically eliminate the disorders caused by iodine deficiency: to
reduce by the year 2005 the goiter rate among children of 8-12 years old to
under 5%; to supply stably iodized salt to over 90% of family households
throughout the country; to attain the iodine content in urine at 10-20 mcg/dl.
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- To reduce the rate of family households with low input energy levels
Targets:
+ To reduce the rate of family households with a per head input energy
level of under 1,800 Kcal from 15% in 2000 to 10% by 2005 and to under 5% by
2010.
- To mark ably improve the state of food hygiene and safety.
Targets:
+ To reduce by 25% the number of massive food poisoning cases (each case
involves more than 30 persons) by 2005 and by 35% by 2010 (as compared with
1999).
+ To reduce by 10% the number of food poisoning cases by 2005 and 30% by
2010 (as compared with 1999).
+ To reduce the rate of micro-organism contamination of street-stall
foods and prepared foodstuffs.
2. Major solutions and policies
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- Educating and popularizing the nutrition knowledge to the entire
population;
- Ensuring the food security at family household level;
- Preventing and combating protein-energy malnutrition among children and
mothers;
- Preventing and combating nutritious micro-elements;
- Preventing and combating nutrition-related chronic diseases;
- Integrating nutrition activities into the primary health care;
- Ensuring the food quality, hygiene and safety;
- Monitoring, evaluating and supervising the nutrition work;
- Building up pilot models in order to draw managerial experience.
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- Ensuring the national food security;
- Stepping up the hunger elimination and poverty alleviation;
- Improving infrastructure and essential services for the care for
mothers and children.
c. Policies in
support of nutrition:
- Incorporating nutrition criteria in the local socioeconomic development
plans;
- Perfecting the policies in support of nutrition care;
- Socializing the nutrition work.
d. Investment
for implementation of the strategy:
- Making investment from the State budget;
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- Intensifying the international cooperation on nutrition.
3. Implementation plan
a. Stage 1
(2001-2005):
- To carry out main activities for nutrition improvement, focusing on
education, training and development of human resources, and supplement the
policies in support of nutrition.
- To continue executing the target programs.
b. Stage 2
(2006-2010):
- To continue activities of the first stage, institutionalize the State's
direction over the nutrition work; comprehensively evaluate the strategy's
implementation and make it sustainable.
Article 2
The Ministry of Health shall assume the Prime responsibility for the
strategy's implementation and coordinate with the Ministries of Planning and
Investment; Finance; Agriculture and Rural Development, Education and Training;
Justice; Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Trade; Culture and
Information; Science, Technology and Environment; the Vietnam Committee for
Child Protection and Care; the National Committee for Population and Family
Planning; the General Department of Statistics and the concerned bodies in
working out plans, organizing and guiding the implementation thereof,
inspecting, supervising and summing up the annual implementation of the
strategy, then reporting it to the Prime Minister; organizing the preliminary
review of the strategy's implementation by 2005 and the overall review thereof
by 2010.
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In the course of the strategy's implementation, it is necessary to attach
important to the competent development in parallel with the determination of
orientation for investment of resources in order to achieve the highest
efficiency and ensure the sustainable development of the strategy.
Article 3
Annually, basing themselves on the State budget's capabilities and the
strategy's implementation tempo, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of
Planning and Investment shall earmark a funding amount from the State budget
(including domestic and overseas sources) to ensure that the strategy's
activities are carried out for right objectives and with efficiency.
Article 4
The ministries, the ministerial-level agencies and the agencies attached
to the Government shall within the ambit of their functions and tasks, have to
coordinate with the Ministry of Health in performing tasks and achieving
objectives of the national strategy on nutrition for the 2001-2010 period.
Article 5
This Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing.
Article 6
The ministers, the heads of the ministerial level agencies, the heads of
the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People's
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement
this Decision.
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PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai