The Company
for Vaccine and Biological Production No.1 was established under the decision
No. 650/2000/QD-BYT dated March 2nd, 2000 by the Minister of Health, as a State
Company belongs to The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,
Hanoi-Vietnam.
The functions of the Company are manufacturing and trading vaccines and
biological products for human use, analyzing samples of new developing vaccines
and biological products (including diagnostic kits and prophylaxis treatment
products). Annually these vaccines are provided to Expanded Program on
Immunization and domestic demand.
Vaccine is a biological product that can induce long-lasting protection
immunity for humans by active immunization. WHO, UNICEF and UNDP realize that
immunization would be the most effective intervention in overcoming infectious
in community, reducing both mortality and morbidity rates, especially amongst
newborns, children under 5 years and pregnant women.
