Tracking how much resources were spent on HIV/AIDS as well as forecasting resource needs for scaling up responses are important inputs for effective national and global responses to the AIDS pandemic. Efficient allocation of international financial assistance and national resources for HIV/AIDS should be guided by transparent information on sources and uses of funds. The lack of timely, accurate information about spending represents a key constraint for policy decision on effective use of limited resources in developing countries.

The needs to further improve data systems are clear. At present, there has been limited success in establishing resource tracking system and a comprehensive information regarding where those funds came from and how they were spent. As a result, policy makers are unlikely to be able to effectively mobilize additional resources and allocate them toward the populations and types of services that are vital to confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Tracking of national HIV expenditures and financing flows are an essential requirement to monitor and plan the resources for tackling HIV. The National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) tool, assists to monitor these scarce resources for HIV, considering not just the health components, but also education, social protection services, and others, in order to evaluate and quantify the multi-sectoral approach of the national AIDS response. NASA will help to identify funding gaps and duplication of funding in the national response to HIV epidemic.

This publication provides estimates of overall HIV spending in the country for the years 2009–2010, and will be of much value to the Ministry of Health (MOH), as well as the stakeholders who are interested in understanding the financial flows of the national AIDS response.

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This report is a compiled analysis of two National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASA) conducted in 2010 and 2011 in Viet Nam by a team of consultants hired by UNAIDS Vietnam, with the support from Viet Nam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control. The first NASA captured AIDS expenditure by nearly all national and international funding sources in Viet Nam over the two-year period 2008 to 2009, while the second NASA captured this expenditure for 2010. The two NASA track the resources of health services as well as social-mitigation, education, labour, justice and other sectors to embody the multisectoral response in Viet Nam. Through its findings, the NASA aim to inform and support the development of Viet Nam’s new National Strategy on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control to 2020, with a vision to 2030. 

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