Decision No. 21/2001/QD-TTg ratifying the National Strategy on Nutrition for the 2001-2010 Period.

The Strategy here ratified has as its overall objective to improve markedly nutrition in Viet Nam by the year 2010, with a priority of all mothers and children, to create more balance in food rations in various regions of the country and to improve those rations and to increase and meet hygienic standards. It is also a declared objective to fight nutrition-related health problems. Article 1 sets out also specific objective of the Strategy, indicating targets. Article 2 prescribes major solutions to nutrition problems and policies.