Nghe An focuses resources to improve population quality

December is exciting

The communication program to improve population quality was held in Hung Thanh commune (Hung Nguyen), one of the meaningful activities in response toNational Action Month on Population.National Action Month on Population.

At this program, the people in the commune were provided with information by representatives of the Population Department on improving population quality and reproductive health care, helping people better understand current population policies and regimes. In addition, pointing out the shortcomings and difficulties of Nghe An population work is also an opportunity to raise the responsibility of families in implementing the Population - Family Planning policy.

Accompanying this program, Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh An, an official of the Department of Population, Health Education and Communication - Hung Nguyen District Medical Center said: Hung Nguyen is one of the localities that has achieved the replacement fertility rate early.

However, the district's population work still faces difficulties, especially the gender imbalance at birth and the increase in the third child birth rate. Therefore, to improve population quality, promoting communication work is an important task, given top priority to change people's awareness and thinking, thereby creating changes in action.

Continuously in this December, many activities in response to the National Action Month on Population and the Vietnam Population Day were organized. At Mai Hung Secondary School (Hoang Mai town), the communication program aimed at girls of secondary school age was organized in the form of the contest "Be a girl to shine" and received the attention and response of many schools in the town.

Participating in this contest, through three rounds: Greeting - Self-introduction; Knowledge round - "Affirmation" round; Talent round - "Shining" round, students have the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of issues related to population, society, knowledge of adolescent reproductive health, history and culture of the locality. In particular, in the Talent - Shining round, students were able to express their thoughts on the role of girls, on the issue of gender inequality and expressed their desire to contribute and be recognized.

As a member of the team from Mai Hung Secondary School, student Van Thi Bao Tram (grade 9A) said that this competition helped her see the role of girls, and she also hopes that her parents will understand this so that they can accompany her in the process of growing up. According to Bao Tram, her family currently has 4 sisters, but her father still wants to have another brother to have someone to "continue the family line". Her parents' point of view has made Bao Tram feel hurt many times.

After many years of implementing the "Be a girl to shine" contest, Mr. Hoang Dinh Tung - Head of the Population Department said: To improve the quality of population, population work must be continuously implemented with many different subjects, from adolescents, young people, to women of childbearing age and the elderly. On the part of the Population Department, to reach many subjects, the department always innovates in propaganda work and tries to convey in many different forms to create interest but must be practical and effective.

Population work must be carried out regularly and long-term.

The National Action Month on Population in 2024 is being launched with the theme “Improving population quality for a prosperous country and happy families”. In Nghe An, this year’s launching ceremony was held early with the desire to accelerate activities to successfully complete the goals and tasks in 2024 and create a premise and motivation for the following years.

As the locality chosen to launch the launching ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Huu Hien - Vice Chairman of Thanh Chuong District People's Committee said: In the past time, the Party committees at all levels, the government, departments, branches and organizations of Thanh Chuong district have always clearly identified the role and importance of population and development work for the socio-economic development of the district, especially in the work of hunger eradication and poverty reduction; protecting and taking care of people's health; successfully implementing the goals of improving the quality of population in terms of human resources.

In fact, with many solutions, this year the birth rate in the whole district has decreased, reaching and exceeding the target compared to the plan. However, population work still faces many difficulties and many gaps in providing information and reproductive health care services, sexual health for youth and adolescents. The awareness of a number of cadres, party members and people still has the heavy ideology of having a son, having more children when having economic conditions...

These are indeed significant challenges, requiring the attention of all levels, sectors, and the entire society towards current population and development work. We hope that this launching ceremony will gradually change people's awareness.

At the launching ceremony, Ms. Hoang Thi Thom - Deputy Director of the Department of Population - Ministry of Health acknowledged the efforts in population work of Nghe An. In particular, although Nghe An is a large province with a large population and many difficult conditions, the Population sector always has many innovations and creativity in implementing tasks.

However, besides that, the province's population work still faces many challenges such as the alarming gender imbalance at birth; Although population quality has improved, it is still low, especially in terms of pre-marital, adolescent and youth reproductive health care; Health care for the elderly, mothers and children still faces many difficulties... That significantly affects the implementation of the goal of reducing birth rate to soon reach replacement birth rate and improve population quality.

To achieve the goal of "improving population quality", Nghe An determined that this is not a one-time task, only focused on during the National Action Month on Population, but must be carried out regularly and continuously.

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We will further strengthen communication and education on population with many rich and diverse forms suitable to the needs, levels and awareness of all classes of people.
In particular, focusing on mobilizing fewer children in areas and groups with high birth rates so that Nghe An can soon reach replacement birth rates. In addition, it is necessary to continue improving the quality of logistics for reproductive health care/family planning services, diversifying contraceptive methods, aiming to fully, promptly, safely and conveniently provide quality reproductive health care/family planning services for users; continue to implement models and projects to improve population quality so that more and more people can benefit from, be cared for and bring population policies into life.

Mr. Hoang Dinh Tung - Head of the Population Department