The committee of Vietnam Pharmacopoeia have been established since July 1963. Mission is to build a pharmacopoeia. Its content comprises national standards of quality for domestic drugs. Committee have been organized compilation and publication of Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia No I including 2 volume: volume I (1971), Volume II (1983). Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia NoII including volume I (1990), Volume II (1991), Volume III (1994). Supplemental volume comprise 32 standards about vaccine and vaccine test methods.
Pharmacopoeias ; Pharmacy

The people health protection and care at the local level required the drug with acceptable price, safety aiming at the treatment with lowest cost. The pharmacy activity was a important part of the health network at local level. There were some conditions to assure the pharmacy activity at the local level, including the network of drug supply, pharmacy staff, relation between health staffs, pharmacy policy for local level, training and retraining, and information of safe and rational drug use.
Pharmacy ; Public Health ; Delivery of Health Care

September 27th 2000, Vice Minister of Health Lª V¨n TruyÒn have been signed the circular letter about "guiding the registration of manufactured products in the form of drug foodstuffs"
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Manufactured Materials

(1) Some salient results attained: supply drug for people, manufacture, circulation, raising quality of drug; using safely sensibly drug; Strengthen governmental management task of drug, strengthen education. (2) challenges: organizational, realization ability of Party, Governmental policy have remainly limited. Health budget has not increased; Influence of market mechanism; Balance between preventive task and treatment
Public Policy ; Pharmacopoeias

Basing on the law of people's health protection, the decree of No 23/H§BT, the decree of No 68/CP, the decision No1203/BYT-Q§, Ministry of Health have been made a decision about promulgation of lists of ingredients and pharmaceutical forms not receiving registration file for domestic and foreign pharmaceutical products.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Jurisprudence

Realization on the decision No 178/1999/Q§-TTg dated 30/8/1999 of Prime Minister about the promulgation of the regulation on labelling of commodities that domestic circulate and import-export. The circular letter No 34/1999/TT-BTM dated 15/12/1999 of Ministry of Trade. Ministry of Health have been regulated specifically about labels of drugs and cosmetic influence directly on the human health.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Drug Labeling

To attain the standard of drug GMP that is all-sided investment process for all problems that relate to business and manufactured activity of enterprises and only base on the cautious consideration, accurate scientific calculation could been attained the definitive purpose that have been raised competitive ability of domestic products and economic effect, A step raise level for the industrialization-modernization of the pharmaceutical industry of our country
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Reference Standards ; Drug Industry

The pharmaceutical branch has afforded for the recent five years to implement the objectives, including supply the drug with high quality and safe, rational and effective use of drugs. The implementation of solutions in the national drug policy contributed to the industrialization and modernization of pharmaceutical branch
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Public Policy ; Industry ; Social Change

This paper introduced 6 orientations to realize the National Drug Policy in second stage (2001-2005) including: circulation, manufacture; drug quality guarantee; manpower education; scientific studies; realization of the National Drug Policy about traditional pharmaco medical branch. International cooperation information; management and organization
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Public Policy

Drugs and raw materials must be stored in good condition such as proper package with clear label. The drug receive must be implemented in separate place and correct and compared. The drug must be stored as regulation, especially toxic drugs and psychotic drugs. It must have receive paper and dispense paper. Health facilities are responsible for training and organizing implementation of this regulation
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Health Facilities