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The Grant Assistance Scheme for Grass-roots Human Security Projects Handing Over Ceremony
| apan’s Grant Assistance for the Project for Construction of the Vientiane Youth Centre for Health and Development (VYCHD) Gender Specific Clinics and Reproductive Health Mini-Laboratory |
The handover ceremony of the project for construction of the Vientiane Youth Centre for Health and Development (VYCHD) Gender Specific Clinics and Reproductive Health Mini-Laboratory was held on September 3, 2009 at the Vientiane Youth Centre in Vientiane Capital with the attendance of H.E. Mr. Masaaki MIYASHITA, Ambassador of Japan to the Lao PDR, H.E. Ms. Sysay LEUDEDMOUNSONE, President of Lao Women’s Union Central and the other officials concerned.
The project was financed by Japan’s grant assistance worth 69,157 US dollars for the Lao Women’s Union of Vientiane Capital to construct reproductive health gender specific clinics with a mini laboratory and procure their necessary medical equipments.
In the Lao PDR, young people have little information on sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health, and they have little access to reproductive health services. The risk of HIV infection for young people in particular will become greater as people’s mobility grows due to an increase or development of tourism, migration and urbanisation.
Hence the improvement of reproductive health services is essential, and the Japanese Government is very pleased to provide assistance to tackle this problem.
It is expected that through this project the Vientiane Youth Centre for Health and Development (VYCHD) will offer better reproductive health services and improve young people’s access to those services in Vientiane Capital and in the Lao PDR as a whole.
(c) Embassy of Japan in the Lao PDR