WHO will support the Government of Viet Nam in the following areas laid out in Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW:

• Renovate fundamentally and comprehensively the training of human resources for health, meeting both ethical and professional requirements in conditions of proactive and active integration into the world.
• Renovate health financing to mobilize resources adequately and equitably for effective protection, care and improvement of the people’s health, with the focus on vulnerable people, ethnic minority people, and people living in remote, mountainous, border and island areas.
• Increase domestic resources for prevention and control of priority public health conditions such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
• Renovate the organization, provision, and management of health care services, focusing on grassroots health system, commune-level health system serving as frontlines in disease prevention and health care.
• Raise the capacity of research and production of drugs and vaccines.
• Improve the quality of health care services, basically overcome the hospital overcrowding through strengthening of primary care level.
• Pay special attention to maternal and child health, especially in mountainous, remote, difficulty areas, border and island areas.
• Develop appropriate models for elderly care.

Through this support, Viet Nam will move the universal health coverage agenda forward and contribute substantially to WHO’s global target of 1 billion more people benefitting from universal health coverage.