The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will provide Vietnam with US$86 million to implement a healthcare system project in the 2012-2016 period.

The project will be divided into two phases. The first will be carried out in 15 provinces, focusing on four year training programmes for 1,000 doctors and 6-9 month training courses for 6,000 communal medical staff on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, maternal and child healthcare.

The second phase will help increase the capacity building of the National Centre of Drug Information and Adverse Drug Reactions Monitoring.

(VOV)