LAO CAI - Ethnic minority regions need 10 years to achieve a fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman, the General Office for Population and Family Planning reported in a seminar on ethnic populations and fertility health in Lao Cai Province.
According to deputy minister of health Nguyen Ba Thuy, the office would further promote population and reproductive healthcare work to help ethnic minority people reach the country's targeted fertility rate.
In the next few years, training for population workers as well as family planning services in ethnic minority regions would be further focused, said Thuy.
Measures to control birth-rates and reduce the imbalance of sexes would also be applied.
Thuy said that investment in human resources and finance for the ethnic regions must be increased to achieve the desired results over the next 10 years.
According to statistics, 20 provinces in Viet Nam are home to ethnic minority people that account for 20 per cent of the country's total population, and most of those provinces have high birth-rates compared to the rest of the country.
Eight of them have a fertility rate of over 2.5 births per woman, and Ha Giang and Kon Tum are up to three. - VNS
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