The Vietnam One Health Partnership high-level annual forum for zoonoses 2024 was held in Hanoi on December 10, focusing on preventing zoonotic diseases and promoting environmental management in the 2021 - 2025 period.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has committed to implementing One Health initiatives to prevent future pandemics due to transmission from animals to humans.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative Office in Vietnam, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) in Vietnam, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) on September 28 renewed their commitment to stand with other sectors and stakeholders towards the global elimination of human deaths from rabies transmitted from dogs by 2030.

Northern Vietnam remains the region with the highest number of death from rabies, accounting for 80 percent of the country’s mortality, deputy director of the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan told a meeting in Hanoi on August 6.