The subject is on everyone's lips and seems to be neverending. In Vietnam, as elsewhere, the situation is serious.  On the health side, the problem has been managed with an iron fist by the authorities for several months. The result is undoubtedly effective: only 35 deaths have been reported and the number of patients is only by the hundreds. We would love to be able to say the same for so many other countries. On the socio-economic side, the problem is terribly worrying: in the towns and cities, unemployment has skyrocketed without compensation. Day labourers were the most impacted victims, they found themselves without work, when they were already earning less than the subsistence threshold. Within days the Mekong Plus teams reduced their salary and launched an emergency program with food supplies for the very poor. This is over now, and we have resumed our microcredit programs to help people with 1/2 Euro income to improve their condition.