Vietnam aims to narrow gender gap
(VOV) - The Ministry of Health launched a month of action on population control in Hanoi on December 5, with the primary aim to reduce the gender ratio imbalance.
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien said that Vietnam has intensified effective measures to narrow the gender gap at birth, which is expected to peak at 113/100 - boys over girls - in 2015 before the new measures take effect.
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He stressed the need to raise public awareness of gender equality, prevent gender discrimination at birth and offer more incentives for families to avert pregnancy terminations of females.
He also revealed the Health Ministry’s plan to control population in coastal areas, islands and remote regions, provide better care to old people and lower the disparity in gender ratios.
According to the Ministry’s statistics, 104 boys were born for every 100 girls in 1999, rising rapidly to 112 per 100 by 2011.