No. | Contents | Unit in charge | Coordination unit | Products expected to be achieved | Completion time |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) |
1 | Direction and administration |
1.1 | Establish the Steering Committee to implement the Program | The Drug Administration of Vietnam | Relevant units | Products: - Decision of the Minister of Health. - Working regulations of the Steering Committee | May 2023 |
1.2 | Urge the annual report on the results of the Program implementation by localities | The Drug Administration of Vietnam | Relevant units | Products: The Ministry of Health’s Report to the Prime Minister on summarizing the results of the Program implementation by localities. | Every year |
1.3 | Organize the preliminary assessment of the progress and results of the Program implementation | The Steering Committee | The Ministry of Health (the Drug Administration of Vietnam); the Ministry of Planning and Investment; the Ministry of Finance; the Ministry of Science and Technology; the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and relevant units. | Products: Conferences or preliminary and final reports in each period. | December 2025; December 2030 |
2 | Development and improvement of mechanisms, policies and laws on pharmacy |
2.1 | Research and issue specific mechanisms, priorities and incentives for the research and production of vaccines, especially, vaccines for emerging, dangerous and highly infectious diseases; new vaccines not available in Vietnam; combination vaccines; vaccines for diseases uncovered in the Expanded Program on Immunization. | The Administration of Science, Technology and Training | The Department of Legal Affairs; the Drug Administration of Vietnam; the General Department of Preventive Medicine and relevant units. | Products: Guiding documents, regulations or legal documents promulgated by competent authorities | 2023-2025 |
2.2 | Propose to develop regulations related to the licensing of circulation and supply of vaccines. | The Drug Administration of Vietnam | The Department of Legal Affairs and related units | Products: Guiding documents, regulations or legal documents promulgated by competent authorities | 2023-2025 |
2.3 | Propose to develop regulations related to bidding and procurement of vaccines. | The Department of Planning and Finance | The Department of Legal Affairs and related units | Products: Guiding documents, regulations or legal documents promulgated by competent authorities | 2023-2025 |
2.4 | Propose to develop regulations related to the use of vaccines. | The General Department of Preventive Medicine | The Department of Legal Affairs and related units | Products: Guiding documents, regulations or legal documents promulgated by competent authorities | 2023-2025 |
3 | Implementation of new technology application, international cooperation |
3.1 | Promote research and application of new and advanced technologies in addition to traditional technologies to serve the production of cancer vaccines, multi-component vaccines and other vaccines to meet the needs for disease prevention and control | The Administration of Science Technology and Training | The Drug Administration of Vietnam; the General Department of Preventive Medicine; NICVB; vaccine research and production facilities and relevant units | Products: New and advanced technologies in vaccine research and production transferred and applied in Vietnam | 2023-2025 |
3.2 | Strengthen access to information, expand and promote bilateral and multilateral cooperation with other countries and international organizations in vaccine research and production. | The Department of International Cooperation | The Drug Administration of Vietnam; the General Department of Preventive Medicine; the Administration of Science, Technology and Training; NICVB; vaccine research and production facilities and relevant units | Products: Memorandum of Understanding, bilateral and multilateral cooperation with countries and international organizations. | 2023-2025 |
4 | Development of human resources |
| Prioritize the development of human resources for research and production of vaccines; training and further training for experts at home and abroad in research and production of vaccines; | The Administration of Science, Technology and Training | The Department of International Cooperation; the research and production facilities and relevant units | Products: - Experts to be sent to train at home and abroad in vaccine research and production. | 2023-2030 |
5 | Implementation organization |
| 5.1. The head of the unit in charge is assigned to organize the implementation of activities to ensure quality and work schedule, and coordinate with the Department of Planning and Finance in estimating the fund for each activity. In case of difficulties, unit in charge shall proactively report to the Ministry of Health for advice and direction. 5.2. The Department of Planning and Finance shall guide units in estimating and allocating funds to carry out activities as prescribed. 5.3. The units shall implement activities; annually, develop plans and estimates and submit them to competent authorities for approval on contents and funding according to non-business medical, non-business scientific and other lawful funding sources. 5.4. The unit in charge is responsible for sending a report on the performance of the assigned task to the Drug Administration of Vietnam before every January 15. 5.5. The Drug Administration of Vietnam is responsible for monitoring, urging and summarizing the performance of tasks of the units, periodically reporting to the Ministry of Health the results of the implementation of the Plan before every March 15. 5.6. The units shall actively carry out planning to implement the contents assigned to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities mentioned in the Program to ensure the supply of vaccines until 2030 according to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 1286/QD-TTg dated October 25, 2022. |
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