Provide some remarks and results of associations between development and health protection in Vietnam. With the emerging of chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, HIV/AIDS...), we have to organize a broadly health-care network, with treatment and prevention agencies. Training and educations for health workers should be directed toward commune health-care needs, combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine. Some achievements: almost people know how to read and write, average life expectancy was 67.8 years old, mortality rate of children under 1 year old was 36.7/1,000 person in the year 1999, 97% of people were protected by National Expand Immunization Program in the year 2000, natural population growth rate decreased from nearly 4% in the year 1975 to 1.4% in the year 2000. We have good and effective co-operation with many countries in the training and technical transfer to control disasters and epidemics
Health ; Chronic Disease

A new compound, 3β-acetoxylanosta-7,9(11),24-triene-26-al (3), and seven known compounds (1 – 2 and 4 – 8) were isolated from Ganoderma tropicum (Jung.) Bres. collected in Tay Nguyen, Vietnam. The structures of these compounds were determined by one- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and high-resolution ESI-MS, and by comparison with literature data. All of the isolated compounds were tested for nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae-stimulated RAW 246.7 cells. Among them, compounds 2 – 4 and 6 – 8 enhanced the NBT reduction in a dose-dependent manner.

A new compound, 3β-acetoxylanosta-7,9(11),24-triene-26-al (3), and seven known compounds (1 – 2 and 4 – 8) were isolated from Ganoderma tropicum (Jung.) Bres. collected in Tay Nguyen, Vietnam. The structures of these compounds were determined by one- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and high-resolution ESI-MS, and by comparison with literature data. All of the isolated compounds were tested for nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae-stimulated RAW 246.7 cells. Among them, compounds 2 – 4 and 6 – 8 enhanced the NBT reduction in a dose-dependent manner.