On 22 June 2009 stakeholders from the health sector in Vietnam came together to share their views about burning issues of health insurance in Vietnam.

The Stakeholder-Seminar was conducted in the framework of InWEnt program on "Capacity Building for Effective Health" which aims at strengthening capacities of national health institutions to jointly tackle core problem areas of the health system. During the seminar the program participants as one of four national teams from Vietnam, Cambodia, Tanzania and Kenia shared their views on a case study on Social Health Insurance the Vietnamese group has selected to work on during the course of the training program.
Apart from that the intention was to elicit from these stakeholders commitment and support for the implementation of the case study.
Beside the supervisors of the participants, representatives from international donors active in the health sector in Vietnam as well as representatives of provincial institutions who are in charge of implementing health insurance policies attended the seminar.