Since 2015, USAID’s Healthy Markets activity has conducted a pilot of community-based HIV testing approaches, including HIV lay testing, self-testing and partner notification (the voluntary process where trained health workers notify the sexual partners of a person newly diagnosed with HIV, with the consent of the HIV positive client). The pilot has demonstrated that these approaches accelerate progress towards reaching Vietnam’s HIV testing and treatment goals. Statistics from the pilot showed that 50% of HIV lay and self-testers were new to HIV testing, 4% of all those tested through community-based services were diagnosed with HIV, and more than 90% of those diagnosed with HIV were successfully enrolled in treatment. Based on these results, on November 24, the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control committed to scaling up community-based HIV testing and released national guidelines for implementation. So What? As USAID works with the Vietnamese government to sustainably address HIV epidemic control, community-based HIV testing is an effective approach to scale up nationwide and accelerate the detection of new HIV cases