Vietnam

With a goal of ending HIV and TB by 2030, the Government of Vietnam has significantly increased its domestic funding and management responsibility for the HIV and TB responses, including integrating HIV and TB into the services covered by social health insurance (SHI). Still, as of 2019, over half of the country’s HIV and TB funding was provided by international donors, including the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Mobilizing additional domestic resources to meet current and future health demands is an urgent priority – particularly as the country graduates to a middle-income status and international funding declines.

LHSS is partnering with the Government of Vietnam to strengthen capacity to both finance and manage health services, including comprehensive HIV and TB programs. Our health financing, public financial management, health governance, and procurement and supply chain management experts are supporting the government’s efforts to:

Strengthen public financial management to find greater efficiencies and support the mobilization of domestic resources for the health sector
Increase domestic financing to give more people access to HIV services
Improve how financial resources are allocated and used for HIV services
Ensure a continuous supply of best value, quality commodities to improve health outcomes
Integrate TB services into Vietnam’s social health insurance scheme to increase access

Our work will benefit the population of Vietnam with financially accessible public health services. This includes the 160,000 people in Vietnam who rely on life-saving HIV treatment and those affected by TB. They will have improved access to uninterrupted, affordable HIV and TB services through social health insurance (SHI). Bolstering local quality of care and effectiveness through our approach will lead to decreased mortality and reduced out-of-pocket spending, as the whole population will benefit from improved financial access to essential health services.

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Articles, Blogs, and Stories

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Vietnam Transitions to Sustainable Financing for TB Drugs

For the first time, Vietnam has procured TB medicines using its national social health insurance scheme.
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Sustainable Financing for TB Care and Treatment in Vietnam

LHSS is supporting the capacity development of Vietnam’s National Tuberculosis Program to manage, quantify, procure, and distribute TB first-line drugs through a self-funded health finance system.
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LHSS Efforts to Strengthen Vietnam’s Social Health Insurance System

Ceremony marked the formal start of the LHSS Project’s four-year effort to help the Government of Vietnam implement its social health insurance program.
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LHSS Vietnam Launch Event Highlights

This video captures a November 6, 2020 ceremony in Hanoi which marked the formal start of the LHSS Project’s four-year effort to help the Government of Vietnam implement its social health insurance program. The program covers treatment services for people with HIV, among other essential health services.

Working closely with the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) agency, LHSS will help improve the agency’s capacity to manage the insurance program funds effectively, efficiently, equitably, and with accountability. LHSS will also support Vietnam’s transition to full financial ownership of its HIV and TB responses.
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LHSS Kicks Off Work in Vietnam

Effort to strengthen Vietnam’s social health insurance program will benefit people with HIV.
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HMED Software for ARV Procurement in Vietnam

HMED software will improve Vietnam’s capacity to effectively forecast ARV demand, and manage the drugs when they are in the country. Also, engaging drug manufacturers and distributors is crucial to overcoming supply side obstacles.
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LHSS builds on achievements of the USAID Sustainable Financing for HIV Project (2018-2020)
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Monthly Newsletter: Social Health Insurance Policy and Media Updates in Vietnam