Decision No. 21/2001/QD-TTg ratifying the National Strategy on Nutrition for the 2001-2010 Period

THE PRIME MINISTER DECISION .'\o.21/2001/QD-TTg OF FEBRL-\RY 22, 2001 RA TI FYf NG THE NA TIO~AL STRATEGY ON NUTRITION FOR THE 2001 2010 PERIOD JJ11rs11an1 1u 1/ie Lai1' on Organi::011011 of the Go1·er11111e11r Septe111her 30. !Y92: f'ur.1·11am 10 rhe Lem on Protection of People , Heolth of.June 30. 2000 . . -ll the proposal of'the t/inisler of'ffealrl!. DECIDES: Article 1.- To ratih the national strate gy on nutrition for the 2001-2010 period with the follo\\ing principal contents: l. Oh.icctin•s: a/ OYerall objecti\'es: 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 qu.mtitatively adequate and further qualitatiYely impro,·ed. meeting the In gienic safety standards. To restrict the ne,, Iy arising nutriuon-rclated health problems. bl Specific objectives: People shall have their knowledge about nutrition elevated and be encouraged to practice a rational nutrition regime. Targets: + The rate of mot11ers who are knmYlcdgeable :ibout and practice ,1 proper nutrition regime for sick children to increase from 211 2'½, in 2000 to -l0% by 2005 :ind 60'1/i, by 2010 + The rate of mothers who totally breast feed their infants ,rithin the first four months to rise from , 1. I 'I;, rn 2000 to -l5% b\' 2005 and 60% b, 20 IO. + The rate of female youngsters trained in nutrition and provided motherhood knowledge lo reach 25''1,, b , 2005 and -l0"1;, b, 20 I 0. To reduce the malnutrition rate of children and mothers: Targets: + The weight malnutrition rate according to age among under-5 children in the whole country to drop by 1.5% annually to under 25% by 2005 and under 20% by 2010. + The height malnutrition rate according to age among under-5 children in the whole country to drop 1.5'½, annuall, + The rate of ne,vborns weighing under 2.500 gram to reduce to 7'1/ri by 2005 and 6% by 2010. + The r:ltc of prolonged enerf,'Y deficiency among women of tile fcnility age in the whole country to drop l % annually. + The rate of over-weight under-5 children to drop to under 5%. To basicalh eliminate the state of ,·itarnin A and Iodine deficiency and to substantially reduce the nutrition related anemia Targets: + To keep the rate of actiYe corneal :--em-ulceration caused by \'itamin A deficiency among under-5 children :.1lways below that of community health significance. + To reduce the vitamin A deficiency of the pre-clinical type: the rnte of under-5 children with a Im, , itnrnin A content in scn1111 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 of8- I 2 years old to under 5'%: to stabilize the supply of iodized salt throughout the country to over 90% of family households: to attain the iodine content in urine at 10-20 mcg/dl. + To reduce the rate of iron-deficiency anemia among pregnant ,,omen in all regions where the program is executed to 30'1/;, by 2005 and 25% by 201 (). To reduce the rate of family households \\ith low input energy leYcls Targets: To reduce the rate of family households \Yith a per head input ener,gy lcYcl of under 1.800 Kcal from 1:5'¼, in 2000 to Ill'% by 2005 and to under 5'1/., by 2010. To m:irkcdly improve the state of food hygiene and safctY. Targets + To reduce by 25% the numb•:r of m:1ssi,e food poisoning cases (each case involves more than 30 persons) by 2005 :111d by 35% by 2010 (as compared ,,ith 1999). + To reduce by l 0% the number of food poisoning cases by 2005 and 30'¼, by 20 l O (as compared ,,ith 1999). + To reduce the rate of micro-organism contamination of street-stall foods and prepared foodstuffs . 2. Ma jor solutions and policies: a/ Improvement of nutrition and food quality, hygiene and safety: Educating J nd popularizing the nutrition kno,,ledge to the entire population: Ensuring the food security at family household lcYel: PreYenting and combating protein-energy malnutrition among children and mothers: Preventing and combating nutritious micro-clements: Preventillg and combating nutrition-related chrollic diseases: Integrating nutrition activities into the primary health care: Ensuring the food quality, hygiene and safety: Monitoring. e, aluating and supervising the nutrition work: Building up pilot models in order to draw experience in direction. bl Policies closely related to nutrition: Ensuring the national food security; Stepping up the hunger elimination and po,·erty alleviation: Improving infrastructure nnd essential sef\'ices for the care for mothers and children. c/ Policies in support of nutrition: Incorporating nutrition criteria in the local socio economic development plans: Perfecting the policies in support of-nutrition care: Socializing the nutrition work. di Investment for implementation of the strate1:,1:': Making investment from the State budget: Bringing into play the domestic resources and mobilizing the community's sources: Intensifying the international cooperation on nutrition ... 3. Implementation plan: a/ Stage l (2001-2005): To carry out activities focusing on nutrition improvement attach importance to the education. training and development ofhuman resources. and supplement the policies in support of nutrition. To continue executing the target programs. b/ Stage 2 (2006-2010): To continue acti,itics of the first stage, institutionalize the State's direction over the nutrition work, to sustain and comprehensively evaluate the strategy's implementation. 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. superYising and summing up the annual implementation of the strategy, then reporting it to the Prime Minister: organizing the preliminary reYiew of the stratq,ry's implementation by 2005 and the overnll review thereof by 21) 10. The Nutrition Institute shall act as the standing body assisting the Ministry of Health deploy professional and technical activities and organize periodical inspection, supervision and evaluation of the strategy's implementation. In the course of the strategy's implementation, it is necessary to attach importance to the development of capabilities 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 themselYes on the State budget"s capabilities and the strategy"s implementation tempo, th•:; 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 acfo·ities are carried out for right objectives and with efficiency. Article ./.- 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 stratq,,y on nutrition for the 2001-2010 period. Article 5.- This Decision takes effect 15 days atler its s1gmng Article ri.- The ministers. the heads of the ministerial level agencies. the heads of the agencies attached to the Gm·emment and the presidents of the Peop!e ·s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decision. The Vietnam Women·s Union and the concerned agencies shall coordinate with the Ministry of Health in implementing this Decision. Prime Minister PHAN VAN KHAI