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More than 20 localities in Vietnam have low birth rate: Health Ministry

Vietnam’s economic engine HCM City has the country’s lowest fertility rate of 1.53, according to the Ministry of Health’s latest report in June. 

Birth rates alarmingly low in urban areas of Vietnam: health official

Nguyen Doan Tu, director general of the General Department of Population and Family Planning, under the Ministry of Health, talks to Vietnam News Agency on what Viet Nam should do to narrow the gap in birth rate between different regions.

Gender ratio at birth still skewed and growing

 VietNamNet Bridge – .Several effective measures have been implemented to control the gender imbalance over the years, but in many areas of Viet Nam the ratio of male to females at birth is still skewed.