Pharmaceutical quality, management are important targets to integrate in international pharmaceutical market, raising field's prestige. The authors showed that must review and control several factors in imported and exported records of the products, such as GMP condition of supplier, TSE. Learning about inspected experiences of famous special organizations. Preparing to enhance Vietnam's GMP. To advance pharmaceutical exported program to foreign country
Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic ; Reinforcement (Psychology) ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

A cross-desribtive study consisted 480 children from 15 to 24 on KAP on HIV/AIDS on the villages, communes of Hatinh province. The result showed that: Right knowldege on the prevention of HIV/AIDS of the teenage who unmarried 67.3%, they still have wrong knowledge on the way to transmission and the prevention such as mosquito bite, share bowl, chopstick, no contact with IHV transmission. The HIV transmission. The propotion of HIV in male is low. The propotion of use drug addiction in the teenage whom unmarried is low (0.6%). These teenage who have sexual intercourse is 12.5%, low in use condom, include have sexual intercourse with prostitute. These are risk factors cuase HIV/AIDS in the teenage of Ha Tinh province.
HIV ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; Risk Factors ; Adolescent ; Knowledge ; Attitude ; Behavior

The strategy of pharmaceutical industry for 2002 - 2010 period” that was approved by Primer Minister mentioned to the need of build-up priority policies for businesses which have invested to researching, developing and innovating the pharmaceutical technology, encouraging the use of generic drug and medications made in Vietnam. An authority for nationwide regulating the medication price should be established as soon as possible. The Drug Management Administration should play more active role as a bridge between manufacturers, prescribers and patients. The national manufacturers should consider employing international experts to approach and learn their experiences and management models as well as acquaint with regulations in GMP. Out-state drug quality surveillance should be available
Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic ; Drug Industry ; Technology, Pharmaceutical

In recent years the pharmaceutical industry of Viet Nam have had important advancement. Viet Nam have the fourth largest pharmaceutical market in South East Asia region with the average growing rate at third. It is estimated that the pharmaceutical market of Viet Nam will achieve 677 millions USD by 2005. From now to 2005 the pharmaceutical companies of Viet Nam should only focus on manufacturing forms of generic drugs, direct to invest and research new products and be soon active in changing the product strategy which based on export trend and specific demand of regional market
Drug Industry ; Public Opinion ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

The study was carried out on some producing units using much organic solvents such as rubber production, shoe production, wood production, and pesticide production at Bac Ninh, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh city to evaluate risk of the solvents for the worker's health and suggest solutions. In these units, the working atmosphere was polluted by many kinds of chemical solvents including many harm chemicals such as benzene, foormon, tricloetan. In some places, temperature, air speed, noise, dusts were under permitted standard. Solvents affected to worker's health: central nervous symptoms, plant nerve, darken skin
Health ; Risk Factors

Health status of 1288 employees working at 9 paint, rubber, paper and and processing wood factories where chemicals were used in production in Ha Noi, Hai Phong and Da Nang was investigated. 93.9% of these workers exposure to chemicals. 72.2% to poison gas. 50% of factories had chemical level higher than allowed standards. 83.3% workers had chemical poison signs in 2 months previous. 54.8% had diseases related to using chemical. Rate of workers had been ill in year 2000 in these factories was 34.4%. Among them, 97.3% exposure directly with chemicals. Chemical-related disease prevalence was 89.6%. 44.4% factories did not hold health examination for employees
Health ; Chemistry

100 subjects were enrolled in a randomized epidemiological survey on smoking habit. Results show a high rate of users of tobacco (49% subjects) despite of the large awareness (95.7%) of the harm of tobacco. The behavior of smoking in public environment, the intention of smoking cease is varied widely among the studied groups.
smoking

The extract of dried herb of Gynura procumberns, ratio 2:1 had an effect inhibiting symptoms of acute inflammation and is analgesic in experimentation. On the model inhibiting acute inflammatory ocdema, Gynura procum-bens extract inhibited 34.20% the inflammatory edema of mouse’s legs. On the model creating an acute pain by acetic acid 0.6% on white house mice, Gynura procumbens reduced the acute pain. On the model created a pain by temperature Gynura procumbens extract was also analgesic for about 29.05%.
Inflammation ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Medicine, Traditional

In December 2002, 445 households and 1832 individuals of Khanh Trung commune were interviewed and examined in a cross-sectional survey (approximately 85% inhabitants of the commune). The results showed that: The slide positive rate was 10.1%. The rate of asymptomatic malaria carriers was 77.2% of total malaria confirmed cases. There is a relation between people with sleeping in the forest and people without sleeping in its, OR=1.89, P=0.001. Ethnic group of Ra-glai infected with malaria (11.1%) and the age group which had highest rate of asymptomatic malaria was 5-9 years old 11.2%. Parasite density index of asymptomatic malaria group was lower than that of the fever malaria group
Malaria ; epidemiology ; disease ; diagnosis

Reviewing cholera epidemics in Thua Thien-Hue province yielded that people at all age groups had caught cholera, 36% of all these cholera cases were in less than 15 years old group. In 2003, there was a transform from type V.E. OGAWA to V.E. INABA. The C-degree dehydration has been increased and made 50% among cholera patients, statistically higher than the rates of the years 2003, 1992 and 1993. This bacterium was still sensitive to common antibiotics shown on antibiograms. However ampicilline has been at risk of drug resistance. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully choose antibiotics for treatment and chemo-prophylaxis for people.
Cholera ; Epidemiologic Studies ; Epidemiology