Laos reports good progress in country's health conditions at high-level UN meeting


Dr Bounfeng Phoummalaysith (front right) represents Laos at the 57th Session of the UN’s Commission on Population and Development in New York. - Vientiane Times/ANN

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): Laos was able to report good results in family planning uptake, skilled birth attendance, and lowering maternal mortality, during attendance at the 57th Session of the United Nations’ Commission on Population and Development last week.

The conference took place from April 29-May 3 at the United Nations’ Headquarters in New York, USA, and was attended by a high-level delegation from Laos composed of representatives of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the Permanent Mission in New York.

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