Re: Epidemiology in Vietnam

[Judy Ladinsky <jlladins@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

At 04:52 AM 4/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Dr Ladinsky,
>
>You mentioned the Pasteur Institutes in a few cities, the Epidemiology division
>of the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Hygeine and
Epidemiology
>at 1 Pho Yersin, Hanoi. How are these organisations related and which area of
>the work does each cover? Do you have a fax number and some names for the
>Pasteur Institute in Saigon? Also, if the people there know you, I would be 
>extremely grateful if you could write a letter of introduction for me.
>
>Dear anh Tuan,
>
>Can I have Prof Heller's address? Thank you. My sister is a statistician 
>(a real one, not an ex-scientist like me) at the Institute of Child Health in 
>London. I think she works on the mother-infant transmission of HIV. She is 
>interested to find out about HIV work in Vietnam. 
>
>Huy
Dear Huy
    The Director of>the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City is Dr. Ha Ba Khiem
      Fax# 84-8-823-l4l9.  I know the people there very well.  What do you
want to do there
    and what are you interested in with them, Are you planning to go, if so
when?
    Please let me know as I have to know to write a letter of introduction
for you.
   NIHE in Hanoi does the epidemiology for the northern provinces and the
Pasteur Institutes for the
  southern and centralprovinces.  The data from all is coordinated at NIHE
in Hanoi.
   I can answer your questions more specifically if you give me more
detailed information as to what
  you are looking for.
      There is a lot of work going on in Vietnam concerning HIV/AIDS.  There
is a national AIDS Committee
provincial AIDS programs and laboratories Training courses, many AIDS
education projects, surveillance programs
etc,  Again more specifically what is your sister interested in knowing?
            Best regards
           Dr. Judith L. Ladinsky
           USCFSCWVN