The meeting offers a good chance for international organizations and other countries to understand more about the country’s health care services.
The event also provides a forum for Vietnamese and international policy makers and experts to share experience, discuss rising health issues in the region, make policies and adopt WHO action plans in the coming years with the aim of improving health care services in the region.
Among the topics to be reviewed are the rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases, violence and injury prevention, neglected tropical diseases, tobacco control, malaria and artemisinin resistance, HIV prevention and treatment, measles elimination, the health-related Millennium Development Goals and health financing./.