On 15 December 2007, Vietnam’s mandatory helmet law went into effect and the helmet wearing rate rose overnight. The National Traffic Safety Committee produced a documentary that takes a look at the successes and challenges of implementing the law over the past 10 years. To view the full documentary in Vietnamese with English subtitles, please

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

AIP Foundation, Fedex, and other stakeholders launched the first stop of the Walk With FedEx Tour at Nguyen Thai Hoc Primary School in Ho Chi Minh City. Over 1,000 students attended the launch. Previously, in October, the school also co-hosted an International Walk to School Month event with the Department of Education and Training and the

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