The population staff of Yen Thuong Commune (Cao Phong) propagates the importance of prenatal and neonatal screening for the local people.

Over the past time, although the authority of Yen Thuong commune has implemented many solutions to improve the quality of population such as promoting propaganda and communication to people in order to change awareness and behavior in the implementation of population policies. The commune population staff worked closely with 13 population collaborators to propagate once a month at the village meeting. The commune set up four pre-marital clubs led by the secretary of the Youth Union of the hamlets in order to provide counseling on marriage knowledge and safe contraception. However, the quality of population in Yen Thuong commune is still facing many difficulties.

The rate of third birth in the commune tends to increase. In 2016, 2017 the commune had one third child case. In the first nine months of 2018, there were 4 cases of having the third child. To explain this, Mr. Bui Van Tinh, the Commune People's Commissar, said: The cases of having a third child are mainly in the poor households with difficult economic life and low educational level. In the first nine months, the rate of using modern contraceptive methods in Yen Thuong commune was only 75.6%”. The third child birth is mainly happened in the poor family, the family does not have the conditions to care and educate, which will greatly affect the development of young children.

At present, the worrying factor affecting the quality of population in Yen Thuong commune is the pre-natal screening rate of pregnant women is 0%. Pre-natal and neonatal screening is performed for pregnant women in the first trimester, mid-months and within the first month after birth to detect early fetal and neonatal atrophy children with congenital malformations, neural tube defects, down syndrome. However, in Yen Thuong, due to economic difficulties and unawareness of the importance of these problems, pregnant women do not perform prenatal and neonatal screening at medical facilities. The number of pregnant women only attending at the commune antenatal clinics is 81% and 100% of having Tetanus injection.

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