Health insurance for patients with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: coverage and barriers

• Main Authors: Quyen Le Thi Nguyen (Author), Tuong Van Phan (Author), Bach Xuan Tran (Author), Long Hoang Nguyen (Author), Chau Ngo (Author), Huong Thi Thu Phan (Author), Carl A. Latkin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health insurance (HI) plays an important role in ensuring the financial equity by the risk pooling mechanism and reducing the economic burden of healthcare for HIV/AIDS patients. However, there is a lack of evidence to clearly understand HI coverage in regard to people living wit...