A review of Vietnam’s national helmet law was organized by the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and AIP Foundation today in response to the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the law. The event was a chance for delegates from ministries, departments, and provincial levels across Vietnam to conduct a comprehensive assessment of achievements, lessons
To mark the historic occasion of the 10 year anniversary of Vietnam’s 2007 introduction of a universal helmet law, AIP Foundation and FIA Foundation jointly published HEAD FIRST: A case study on Vietnam’s motorcycle helmet campaign. The report details the decade-long campaign to secure the legislations, and the decade-long implementation effort since. “Vietnam provides an
AIP Foundation and FIA Foundation celebrated a “Fun with Traffic Safety” extracurricular day to mark the tenth anniversary of Vietnam’s national helmet law today. Over 1,000 students, teachers, and staff joined distinguished guests and participants for a day full of extracurricular activities at Tien Phong Primary School, located in a suburb of Hanoi, to commemorate
AIP Foundation President Greig Craft sat down with news anchor Ms. Thu Ha of “Today’s Issues”, a popular news program on VTV1, to discuss 10 years of implementing Vietnam’s national helmet law. The interview covered topics such as the success of the law, outstanding issues with helmet use, and the importance of public awareness education
Greig Craft, President of AIP Foundation, was invited to give a speech at a workshop organized by the Directorate for Standards, Metrology, and Quality (STAMEQ) to publish the new helmet quality standard, 5756:2017, in Vietnam. In his remarks, he applauded STAMEQ’s work in publicizing the new helmet standard, particularly to relative partners such as manufacturers
Our Street Wise program won third place in the road safety academic work competition organized as part of the 13th Thailand Road Safety Seminar: Invest in Sustainable Road Safety held in Bangkok. AIP Foundation’s Thailand Chairperson Ratanawadee H. Winther accepted the award from the Interior Ministry’s Deputy Permanent Secretary and gave a brief presentation of
The Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) network, in partnership with the Australian Embassy’s Direct Aid Program, donated 300 helmets to students from Samdech Decho Hun Sen Krous, Phnum Thnol, and Por Langkar Primary Schools in Siem Reap. Delighted students took part in games organized by the student ambassadors that introduced road safety concepts in an engaging and educational
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published a paper on the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative (GHVI), titled A Comprehensive Approach to Motorcycle-Related Head Injury Prevention: Experiences from the field in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Uganda. The paper was a collaboration between AIP Foundation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including Greig Craft,
Stakeholders, including administrators, teachers, students, parents from six program schools, as well as representatives from government agencies, participated in a stakeholder orientation workshop for the Helmets for Families program in Ho Chi Minh City. During the workshop, participants were introduced to the Helmets for Families objectives, implementation plan, activities, monitoring and evaluation methodology. Challenges and
The British Medical Journal’s Injury Prevention Journal published a paper on the National Child Helmet Action Plan (NCHAP), titled Evaluation of an integrated multisector campaign to increase child helmet use in Vietnam, this month. The paper was a collaboration between authors from AIP Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Field Epidemiology Training Program, and
