The Cho Group is a Hong Kong company with its head office based at the capital City Guangzhou, Main Land China. It funds and develops advanced technology Humanitarian and Environmental projects. Now, the Cho Group has been implementing the project to apply Next Generations Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) technology for diagnosis and treatment of various cancers in Guangzhou.

 On 27^th December 2009, the Social Health Assessment Research & Education Institute (SHARE Institute) have visited the Institute for Reproductive and Family Health (RaFH).

From 27^th September to 2^nd October, 2009, Dr Nguyen Thi Hoai Duc participated the XXVI International Population Conference in Marrakech, Morocco. The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population is the co-hosts of this Conference.

From 2-4, September, 2009, the director of Institute for Reproductive and Family Health, Dr Nguyen Thi Hoai Duc participated the NGOs Forum in Berlin, Germany. The Forum was held after 15 years of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo; not only to take stock of what has been achieved so far but also, particularly, to take a joint look ahead and even now to be thinking beyond 2014 and 2015. The NGO forum Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development aims to strengthen NGOs working in partnership to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights for sustainable development in an uncertain and interdependent world. The Government of Germany and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are the co-hosts of this Forum.