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The Asia-Pacific High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Assessment of Progress against Commitments in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals was convened in Bangkok from 6 to 8 February 2012.
The Meeting was held in pursuance of ESCAP resolution 66/10 with the following objectives:
(a) To assess regional progress against commitments in the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals and efforts to ensure universal access, including follow-up to the outcome of the 2011 High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on AIDS;
(b) To promote multisectoral dialogue between the health and other sectors, including justice, law and order and drug control;
(c) To identify areas as for regional cooperation, particularly in addressing policy and legal barriers to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
The Meeting identified, among other things, measures to support the further implementation of Commission resolutions 66/10 and 67/9 as well as the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, particularly in the context of regional efforts to promote universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including multisectoral and regional cooperation to address legal and policy barriers, stigma, discrimination and gender-based violence related to HIV.
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From 1-23 February 2012, the Asia Pacific Community of Practice on HIV, Gender and Human Rights (HIV-APCoP) held an e-discussion on Key Affected Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific with the primary objective of stimulating dialogue to ensure proper policy attention is paid to key affected women and girls in the context of HIV.
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Today, 1.2 billion adolescents stand at the challenging crossroads between childhood and the adult world. Nine out of ten of these young people live in the developing world and face especially profound challenges, from obtaining an education to simply staying alive – challenges that are even more magnified for girls and young women.
In the global effort to save children’s lives, we hear too little about adolescence. Given the magnitude of the threats to children under the age of five, it makes sense to focus investment there – and that attention has produced stunning success. In the last 20 years, the number of children under five dying every day from preventable causes has been cut by one third, from 34,000 in 1990 to around 22,000 in 2009.
This report catalogues, in heart-wrenching detail, the array of dangers adolescents face: the injuries that kill 400,000 of them each year; early pregnancy and childbirth, a primary cause of death for teenage girls; the pressures that keep 70 million adolescents out of school; exploitation, violent conflict and the worst kind of abuse at the hands of adults.
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This report describes specific examples of programme activities that seek to address HIV and promote health and rights among MSM and transgender people in six Asian cities: Bangkok, Thailand; Chengdu, China; Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; Jakarta, Indonesia; Manila, the Philippines; and Yangon, Myanmar.
These examples, identified through consultation with local HIV leaders and practitioners in those six cities, are presented here to inform planning, design, and delivery of health and community services at the municipal level.
Ultimately, these types of activities, if widely adopted and scaled up in combination, would lead to a reduction in rates of HIV infection, improve access to health services, and reduce human rights violations in urban areas and cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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This report provides findings from the rollout of the People Living with HIV Stigma Index (PLHIV Stigma Index) in nine countries in the Asia/Pacific Region (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand). It provides the first large-scale regional comparison of standardised HIV-related stigma indicators. The results represent an extraordinary effort by people living with HIV, PLHIV organisations and supporting domestic and international agencies.
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A review of 10 of the new National Strategic Plans (NSPs) that had either been approved or were in final draft stage was conducted by UNAIDS RST and the regional HIV and AIDS Data Hub between August – December 2011 in order to assess whether: a) they contained various essential elements that have been defined to constitute an effective response for the countries in the region4, b) to look for improvement in the regional strategic planning in terms of process and components of an effective response, and c) to establish the information necessary for working with countries to review whether NSPs are sufficiently aligned towards the new United Nations High Level Meeting targets that all countries have endorsed.
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In collaboration with various community-based organisations, APN+ conducted a peer-led mixed method research project in six Asian countries to document the range of services available for MSM and transgender people living with HIV and to identify barriers to access and use of these services.
The following report consists of six separate country reports: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Singapore. Each report has a standard format and can be read independently. A summary of key findings has been included at the end of this section. Summary findings are also provided for each country report for easy reference.
Quantitative survey data forms the background of each country report, both to provide an overview of population demographics and to establish the structural barriers that shape treatment access among communities of MSM in these populations. The statistics give a sense of the size of the problem faced by local communities.
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This report provides a regional perspective on the progress made by Pacific island countries (PICs) in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It also discusses the implications of climate change, rising food and fuel prices, the 2008 financial crisis, and emerging trade agreements.
Most PICs face considerable challenges in achieving the MDGs, largely because of stagnant economic growth, a lack of employment opportunities in the formal sector, and the subsistence nature of the informal sector. The Cook Islands, Niue, Palau, Samoa, and Tonga are “on track” toward achieving the MDGs. Fiji, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu are exhibiting “mixed progress” in realizing the goals by 2015. Conversely, Kiribati, Nauru, and Papua New Guinea are “off track” in achieving the MDGs.
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In response to the rapid increase in HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in developed Asia, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) launched its ‘Metropolitan Man Initiative’ in 2010 to support civil society organizations in the region to respond to issues related to men's sexual health, including HIV.
This report summarizes key findings from community organizations that provide HIV and sexual health services to the MSM and transgender populations in six metropolitan areas in developed Asia: Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Busan.