Health & Nutrition

At the seventh month, Giang A Nha is as fit as any other child of his age, with no sign of being a preterm baby. “Without the doctors’ care, he wouldn’t have survived,” said Nha’s grandfather, in Ban Mu commune, Tram Tau district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

A Save the Children notable programme in its 25 years of operation in Vietnam, the Infant and Young Child Feeding Programme (IYFC) has seen hundreds of consulting facilities that it helped build keep going even after the programme came to an end. It is also the first project in the country to be named Save the Children’s signature programme.

Save the Children has approved the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) program in Vietnam as its latest signature program, the first time a project in the country to receive such recognition. 

At the December CEO meeting, participants approved the IYFC program. They will also consider the MaMoni integrated maternal, newborn, child health program in Bangladesh for approval as the next signature program.

The children born into ethnic minority groups are three times likely to die than those of Kinh majority group. There are many factors that cause the higher mortality rate among children under five in ethnic minority groups. Among them is the lack of trained doctors and health workers for mothers and children in remote mountainous villages.