US Supports Vietnam Strengthen Rehabilitation Services for Children with Disabilities
At the closing workshop. Source: VietHealth The United States Mission to Vietnam, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), on December 8 marked the end of a project that has made significant improvements in early childhood disability detection and support in three southern provinces. The accomplishments of the six-year effort, under USAID’s Disabilities Integration of Services and Therapies Network for Capacity and Treatment (DISTINCT) project, were highlighted at a ceremony in Dong Xoai attended by representatives of Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and National Committee for Persons with Disabilities, national agencies and ministries, project implementing partners VietHealth and the Medical Committee Netherlands-Vietnam (MCNV), and other key partners and stakeholders. For children under 6 years old, early disability detection and support—including medical care, rehabilitation and special education—reduces the severity of their disabilities in the long r...