At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City
Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) signed a cooperation agreement on preventive
medicine with the (OUCRU) on August 31, aiming to make strides toward improving the disease control capability at the centre.
Accordingly, both sides will share knowledge,
techniques, and scientific information in the field, including testing, disease
screening, data analysis and management, and scientific research over a period
of five years.
The OUCRU will assist the HCDC in training
diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases, such as isolating and detecting
disease agents using molecular biological methods and decoding genes. They will also
step up research topics related to emerging infectious diseases and evaluate
community intervention measures.
OUCRU Director in Ho Chi Minh City Guy
Thwaites said over the course of more than 30 years in Vietnam, the unit
has conducted numerous studies on infectious diseases that could affect the
health and lives of Vietnamese citizens as well as those in Southeast Asian
countries in general.
With this collaboration, Deputy Director of
the municipal Health Department Nguyen Van Vinh Chau hoped for more community
health studies and assessments of the effectiveness of disease control
policies. This, in turn, could pave the way for new directions in research cooperation
in preventive medicine.
He also asked the HCDC to strengthen its
internal strength and enhance its capacity to engage in effective studies,
which is also one of the key components of a relevant project launched by the
municipal People’s Committee early this year./.
Source: VietnamPlus
