Vietnam

Street vendors selling food - Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Street vendors selling food - Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.© Stuart Freedman (Panos)

Emerging terribly damaged by war only 30 years ago, Vietnam has made a remarkable recovery. After a decade of strong economic growth and poverty reduction, it is on course to become a middle-income country by 2012. DFID has been providing aid to Vietnam since 1992 and is now its second largest donor of grant aid.

Key facts

Population:	84.2 million
Average life expectancy:	men: 69 years; women: 74 years
Average per capita income:	US$690
Total UK aid received (2008/09):	£56.7

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Major challenges

DFID’s main challenges in Vietnam are:

HIV/AIDS
sanitation
governance and corruption.

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How We Have Helped

Bridging ethnic divides to reach the classroom in Vietnam

DFID-funded programme is helping children from ethnic minorities get to school

Peer Educators play a vital role in Vietnam’s fight against HIV and AIDS

Since the start of the programme peer educators, like Ha, have been covering more and more injecting ‘hot spots’, from 300 sites in 2005 to over 6,000 sites in 2008, offering face to face support to more and more injecting drug users.

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