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05HANOI1327
2005-06-08 09:20:00
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Embassy Hanoi
Cable title:
VIETNAM: UNFPA COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENT
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TAGS: PREF SOCI VM UNFPA
SUBJECT: VIETNAM: UNFPA COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENT
REF: STATE 101092
UNCLAS HANOI 001327
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TAGS: PREF SOCI VM UNFPA
SUBJECT: VIETNAM: UNFPA COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENT
REF: STATE 101092
1. (SBU) Post, including USAID Mission, has reviewed the
draft country report of the United Nation Population Fund
(UNFPA) for Vietnam. We are concerned that the report does
not address the issue of sexual health education in schools.
The draft report underscores UNFPA's and the GVN's concerns
that Vietnamese youth in particular are increasingly at risk
of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
(STIs),including HIV; Nevertheless, UNFPA is not partnering
with Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training to
implement school-based programs on life skills and
adolescent/reproductive health.
2. (SBU) Vietnam has a high number of unwanted pregnancies
and one of the highest abortion rates in the world. This
indicate a need for better sexual health education in
schools, and not just at service delivery points in the
focus provinces described in paragraph 18 of the draft
report. We recommend a push for the inclusion of secondary
schools in the Information, Education and Communication
(IEC) campaign to be launched in these provinces, based on
existing life-skills and sexual health education models that
were developed by UNICEF/UNFPA for the Vietnamese context.
It is our understanding that Vietnamese communities
historically rejected these school-based education programs
because of the belief that they would lead to increased
sexual activity, although the evidence would seem to
indicate otherwise. Given a burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic,
now is the right time to try again.
MARINE
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SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREF SOCI VM UNFPA
SUBJECT: VIETNAM: UNFPA COUNTRY PROGRAM DOCUMENT
REF: STATE 101092
1. (SBU) Post, including USAID Mission, has reviewed the
draft country report of the United Nation Population Fund
(UNFPA) for Vietnam. We are concerned that the report does
not address the issue of sexual health education in schools.
The draft report underscores UNFPA's and the GVN's concerns
that Vietnamese youth in particular are increasingly at risk
of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
(STIs),including HIV; Nevertheless, UNFPA is not partnering
with Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training to
implement school-based programs on life skills and
adolescent/reproductive health.
2. (SBU) Vietnam has a high number of unwanted pregnancies
and one of the highest abortion rates in the world. This
indicate a need for better sexual health education in
schools, and not just at service delivery points in the
focus provinces described in paragraph 18 of the draft
report. We recommend a push for the inclusion of secondary
schools in the Information, Education and Communication
(IEC) campaign to be launched in these provinces, based on
existing life-skills and sexual health education models that
were developed by UNICEF/UNFPA for the Vietnamese context.
It is our understanding that Vietnamese communities
historically rejected these school-based education programs
because of the belief that they would lead to increased
sexual activity, although the evidence would seem to
indicate otherwise. Given a burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic,
now is the right time to try again.
MARINE
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