Vietnam develops vaccines for human diseasesVietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is striving towards producing its own vaccines that can rival foreign ones both in terms of quality and costs by 2020, deputy health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said. Experts believe that vaccines have been effective in preventing and curing many diseases in Vietnam during the past years. The Prime Minister-approved National Vaccine Product Development Programme towards 2020 has approved of 11 tasks, which focus on research, production and development of vaccines for human diseases. Currently, Vietnam produces 10 types of vaccines for human diseases, of which eight vaccines were used in the National Expanded Vaccination Programme. Deputy health minister Long stressed that Vietnam is actively working on the development of many more different vaccines against human diseases.

Source: VietNamNet News August 29, 2018 10:18 UTC