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AzG Myanmar_Lives_in

The UN estimates that over the last few years between 15,000 - 20,000 people living with HIV die annually in Myanmar, because of lack of access to urgent lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Lives in the Balance outlines the situation for people affected by HIV and TB, with a special focus on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), in Myanmar today.  It calls for urgent funding and assistance to be made available by the international donor community to help Myanmar dose the devastating gap between people's need and people's access to treatment for HIV and TB.

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Achieving an_AIDS-FreeGeneration_for_MSM

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to have a devastating, though often invisible, impact on gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world. In low and middle-income countries, MSM are 19 times more likely to be living with HIV than people in the general population and they represent an estimated 10 percent of new infections each year. Yet for decades the epidemic among MSM was officially ignored by governments, donors, and whole societies.

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Profile Drug_use_pattern_Risk_Behavior_and_selected_Biomarkers_of_women_drug_users_from_seven_sites_in_Nepal

World Drug Report (2010) estimates that there are 16 to 38 million problem drug users across the world and that about 11 to 21 million inject drugs.  Based on a desk review, it was estimated that 3·0 million (range 0·8 - 6·6 million) of those who inject drugs might be HIV positive.

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Secret Lives Other Voices  Research Report3.3

This project is the first research to be conducted with men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (Tg) people in Fiji since 1998. It aims to inform the public health response to HIV and sexual health among MSM and Tg in Fiji and assist in the development of community-based activities. The research was community-based and the survey data were collected by MSM and Tg community research assistants.


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Bangladesh India_route_report

The objective of this report is to provide a rapid assessment of migration and mobility as key influences on the distribution and spread of HIV in the Pacific. While this has been established globally with targeted and tailored prevention programmes on mobility and HIV in a number of countries, the Pacific has yet to develop appropriate responses that take migration and mobility into consideration and ensure that HIV interventions address the drivers of mobility and the specific vulnerabilities that mobility creates.


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Askim Na Save (Ask and Understand): People Who Sell and Exchange Sex in Port Moresby. Kelly A, Kupul M, Man WYN, et al (2011)Askim na Save (Ask and Understand): People who sell and exchange sex in Port Moresby is a comprehensive bio-behavioural study of sex work in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The study was designed to fill gaps in knowledge about the sex industry in PNG and to map the sale and exchange of sex in Port Moresby to create a richer and more detailed understanding of sex workers and their vulnerability to HIV.

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This report presents the results of the study entitled Discourses and Representations of HIV in Fiji and their Impact on the Experience of People Living with HIV and AIDS. This study was conducted in collaboration with the Reproductive Health Clinics of Suva, Lautoka and Labasa and the Fiji Network for People Living with HIV and AIDS (FJN+) between November 2007 and December 2008.

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Treatment Access_for_Positive_MSM_in_the_Asia_Pacific

In collaboration with various community-based organisations, APN+ conducted a peer-led mixed method research project in six Asian countries (India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Singapore) 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.

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Vulnerability to_HIV_and_AIDS

There are a growing number of people migrating between Bangladesh, Nepal and India. Mobility has long been linked with heightened vulnerability to HIV & AIDS. While overall HIV prevalence is low in Bangladesh and Nepal, there is a growing concern that vulnerable mobile populations are forming a bridge between high prevalence areas of India and low prevalence areas in Bangladesh and Nepal. Enhancing Mobile Populations’ Access to HIV & AIDS Services Information and Support (EMPHASIS) is a regional program being implemented by CARE Bangladesh, CARE India and CARE Nepal and led by CARE International UK (CIUK) to reduce AIDS related vulnerabilities among mobile populations crossing the borders of Bangladesh and Nepal into India. This 5-year (August 2009 – July 2014) program, is funded by the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) of United Kingdom.

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