188831 US Government Involvement in Health Issues in Vietnam

Monday, October 27, 2008: 5:06 PM

Marie Haring Sweeney, PhD, MPH , Chief, Surveillance Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations & Field Studies NIOSH, Cincinnati, OH
  
The US government has an ongoing effort to assist in improving health conditions in Vietnam. This includes work on prosthetics for those in need, whether from war related injuries or other causes; immunizations; AIDS prevention and treatment; and Agent Orange with its dioxin contaminant. These activities are coordinated by scientific and health experts from the USA working with Vietnamese experts with a locus in Vietnam at the US Embassy in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Current work on dioxin laboratory capacity building and other capacity building work will be described as well as work on studies concerning remediation of dioxin contamination from Agent Orange in certain locations.

Learning Objectives:
1. understanding of current US govt health work in Vietnam 2. understanding of current US govt health work related to Agent Orange

Keywords: Agent Orange, Vietnam

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I represented United States government for several years while working on health issues in Vietnam at the US embassy in Vietnam
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

See more of: Agent Orange and Other Vietnam Health Issues, Part 2
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