Reprospective study on the healthy station's reports and the data monthly of Malaria Protection Centre of Thanh Hoa province, from 1998-2002. The malaria situation has been stable, no malaria epidemic outbreak and death due to malaria. The annual malaria morbidity has been greatly reduced from 3.74% in 1998 to 2.09% in 2001 and 1.70% in 2002. The malaria parasite rate has been reduced from 0.25% in 1998 to 0.22% in 2001 and 0.19% in 2002. The malaria imported cases were 51.78% (1998) and 92.86% (2002). However, malaria cases are available in almost districts. The number of positive cases in the plain and midland districts are more than in the mountainous area due to the importation of malaria from malaria endemic areas. The malaria cases distributed scattered, which is difficult for management and treatment patients
Malaria ; Therapeutics ; Disease ; epidemiology

Most of malaria hot spots occurred in Lao Cai province from 1998 to 1999 were P.falciparum infections. The rate of parasite infections were high (7.06%-33.75%), because of unorganized migration of population from and to the malaria endemic areas. Illegal migrants often went to Dak Lak and all of them were Mong ethnic, accounted for 70% of unorganized migration in the province. Outbreak control activities were taken in high risk spots. During surveillance, there wasn’t any patient and results of slide were negative or low counts and those were nonresident parasites
malaria ; Disease ; Disease Management ; therapeutics

Malarial statistic data of at HungYen provincial Center of Preventive Medicine shown an incidence of 0,118% of population in the year 2001 and 0,08% in 2002, parasitic rate of 0,68% in 2001 and 0,49% in 2002. All clinical cases and parasitically confirmed cases were infected from the endemic areas , of South Vietnam. Malarial parasite was determined only on laboratories at the level of province and district. At basic level health stations, malarial patients and persons who arrived from endemic regions were not carefully managed
Malaria ; diagnosis ; Therapeutics ;

During the year 2003 and four months of 2004, 5223 blood slides were collected from Ea Sup district and examined for malaria parasite in 343 positive slides, of which 2.089 negatives and 120 positives were sent from the district microscope points for double checking at the Provincial Malaria Center. The incorrectness at district level was found to be 3,11% with the following common mistakes: P.falciparum infection was mistaken to negative: 27.69%, negatives and P.vivax infection mistaken to P.falciparum infection: 24.41%. P.vivax infection mistaken to negative 13.38%. The incorrectness rates varied from point to point showing the different qualification at each microscope point: Ya Tmot: 2.51%; Ea Roc: 1.57%; Ea Le: 2.58%, Cu Kbang: 6.15%, Cu Mlan: 5.81% and Ya Lop: 3.09%
Microscopy ; diagnosis ; blood ; malaria ;

Malaria situation in Lao Cai was stable during 4 first months of 2008. Number of malaria patients has decreased by 39.88% so that the rate of malaria patients/population was reduced by 39.28% compared to the same period of the last year. No malaria parasites were found. The malaria prevalence was reduced in all districts compared to that of the same period of the last year. All the former malaria foci were stable with no new malaria patients found. The survey, however, revealed some weak points in the malaria surveillance network. Blood slides were not taken or taken in inconsiderable number in many communes; blood films were too small of slides were labeled over the blood film. Ten of fifty microscope points (20%) over the province had stopped working due to many reasons: movement of the staff, on training, birth leaves and so on. Forty microscope points were checked and ranked. Only 15 microscope points were ranked "good" (37.5%) as found to regularly work. These points were located mainly at hospitals, inter-communal clinics. Twelve others (12%) were ranked" fair" and 3 points (7.5%) were "weak". Many commune health centers did not regularly report monthly malaria data, or reported insufficient and wrong information causing incorrect data of the upper levels.
Malaria control ; Lao Cai province

The foundations of nuclear medicine in Vietnam were established from 1970. Until now, after 48 years of development, in Vietnam, we have some basic equipment including 31 SPECT, 4 SPECT/CT machines, 11 PET/CT scanners, five cyclotrons, and one nuclear reactor.Many nuclearmedicine techniques in diagnosis and treatment have been routinely performed at provincial and central level health facilities such as tumor scintigraphy, thyroid scintigraphy, bone scintigraphy, kidney scintigraphy, cardiac scintigraphy, and radio-isotope therapy with I-131 and P-32. Selective internal radiation therapy with Y-90 microsphere and I-125 radioactive seed implantation has been also successfully applied in some big hospitals. However, there are still many difficulties for Vietnam as the lack of new widely used radioisotopes such as Ga-67, Cu-64, Samarium-153, and Lutetium-177 and the lack of nuclear medicine specialists. In the future, we are putting our efforts on the applications of new isotopes in diagnosis and treatment of cancers (theranostic) like Ga-68-DOTATATE, Lutetium-177-DOTATATE, Ga-68-PSMA, and Lutetium-177-PSMA, equipping modern nuclear medicine diagnostic tools, strengthening the human resources training in nuclear medicine. At the same time, we are trying our best to strengthen the cooperation with international nuclear medicine societies in over the world.
Cyclotrons ; Diagnosis ; Foundations ; Health Facilities ; Humans ; Isotopes ; Kidney ; Microspheres ; Nuclear Medicine ; Positron-Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography ; Radioisotopes ; Radionuclide Imaging ; Specialization ; Theranostic Nanomedicine ; Thyroid Gland ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon ; Vietnam

The foundations of nuclear medicine in Vietnam were established from 1970. Until now, after 48 years of development, in Vietnam, we have some basic equipment including 31 SPECT, 4 SPECT/CT machines, 11 PET/CT scanners, five cyclotrons, and one nuclear reactor.Many nuclearmedicine techniques in diagnosis and treatment have been routinely performed at provincial and central level health facilities such as tumor scintigraphy, thyroid scintigraphy, bone scintigraphy, kidney scintigraphy, cardiac scintigraphy, and radio-isotope therapy with I-131 and P-32. Selective internal radiation therapy with Y-90 microsphere and I-125 radioactive seed implantation has been also successfully applied in some big hospitals. However, there are still many difficulties for Vietnam as the lack of new widely used radioisotopes such as Ga-67, Cu-64, Samarium-153, and Lutetium-177 and the lack of nuclear medicine specialists. In the future, we are putting our efforts on the applications of new isotopes in diagnosis and treatment of cancers (theranostic) like Ga-68-DOTATATE, Lutetium-177-DOTATATE, Ga-68-PSMA, and Lutetium-177-PSMA, equipping modern nuclear medicine diagnostic tools, strengthening the human resources training in nuclear medicine. At the same time, we are trying our best to strengthen the cooperation with international nuclear medicine societies in over the world.