Birth-control measures often used include the IUD, contraceptive pills, condoms, and sterilization. Women and men are provided with information and encouraged to use birth-control measures on a voluntary basis. They also have access to consultancy and assistance from medical workers and experts at public health care establishments, offices, enterprises and meetings held jointly by local administration in collaboration with the healthcare and population and family planning sectors. Vietnamese law permits abortion, provided that it is carried out at those establishments licensed by the Ministry of Health. Women can have an abortion at any healthcare centre offering the service.
Abortion is kept confidential.
Women are given information related to abortion so they can make their own decision and know how to better look after themselves. Female sterilization and male vasectomy are carried out in well-equipped healthcare centres on a voluntary basis. Usually, couples are provided with information on contraceptive measures to enable than to choose the measures that suit them psychologically and physically. Sterilization and vasectomy are often requested by couples with many children or those that cannot resort to other measures. In addition, public employees who undergoes abortion or sterilization are permitted to have between five to seven days off without salary deduction.