Vietnamese women have been offered free sexual health care in six suburban districts of the capital city.
A total of 73 hospital words and health centres have joined a programme to provide treatments to girls and women aged 15 to 49 without charge.
It is aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases after a survey showed that 36.3% of women in the city do not what type of preventative measures to take, according to Dr Nguyen Quoc Chinh.
Dr Chinh, the deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Reproductive Health Care Centre, will work alongside the Vietnam Women's Union to draw up a plan on how to effectively run the check-up programme at the health centres.
The Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Health has been encouraging doctors to offer free reproductive health care to women since 2006. Over the last two years, 124,621 patients have been examined, while 40,000 have received treatment.
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