The event, clubbed with World Population Day, which falls on July 11, was themed, “Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations”. “Investing in family planning is investing in the health and rights of women and couples worldwide,” said Kamal Malhotra, UN resident coordinator in Việt Nam. This exhibition will showcase key achievements in population and development, sexual and reproductive health, including voluntary family planning and gender equality. The population and family planning work is an important part in the country’s development strategy, she said, highlighting that Vietnam-UNFPA cooperative relations plays a significant roles in Vietnam’s population and family planning programmes. However, Vietnam still faced a number of challenges in its population-family planning work such as increasing population, rapid population ageing and high gender imbalance rate, which put pressure on the nation’s social security, Thinh stated.

Source: VietNamNet News July 12, 2017 09:11 UTC