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With support from Johnson & Johnson, Pathfinder launched a health learning program for in- and out-of-school youth in Can Tho city and Thai Nguyen province to change attitudes and improve knowledge about HIV through life skills-based education.

“I remembered our life-skills forums where we had an opportunity to deal with similar scenarios. I was confident to share with him my feelings, my nervousness and my expectation that I preferred to delay,” one young woman said.  “He agreed with me and showed respect to me. I was very happy.”

On July 17th, 2012 Pathfinder collaborated with the Parliamentary Committee for Social Affairs to organize a workshop to review existing policies for ethnic minority students in medical education.

At the invitation of People's Aid Coordinating Committee of Viet Nam, Pathfinder Viet Nam Country Representative Dr. Ton van der Velden delivered a speech on the 60th anniversary of Vietnamese Union for Friendship Organizations (VUFO).

In Vietnam, a project to increase education in reproductive healthis met with success.

Supported by international donors, particularly Pathfinder International, which was the execution and technical support agency, the project expanded in 2006 to cover eight of the nation's 10 medical schools throughout the country.