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This study focuses on the experiences and perspectives of HIV-positive women living in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. The purpose of the study is to give voice to women living with HIV and to allow their stories and view to inform an improved HIV response where the dignity of each and every woman and man is respected and protected. Download this publication |
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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. Download this publication |
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Men who have sex with men (MSM) are currently at marked risk for HIV infection in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Estimates of HIV prevalence rates have been consistently higher among MSM than for the general population of reproductive-age men virtually wherever MSM have been well studied. Download this publication |
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Prevention is an essential component of PEPFAR’s balanced approach to addressing the global AIDS epidemic. In December 2009, PEPFAR released its Second Five-Year Strategy, which outlined priorities and plans for its prevention programs across the countries where it implements activities. Download this publication |
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In an old schoolhouse on the outskirts of Chennai, the scene is hectic at midday. The rehabbed building is now home to a local HIV prevention program, with a busy sexually transmitted infection clinic, drop-in counseling facilities, and a safe house for victims of violence. At one large table sits a group of peer educators, all women—most of them poor and illiterate—reviewing data they have gathered in the neighborhoods where they conduct HIV prevention activities for other sex workers. |
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USAID/RDMA supports a range of community-based programs in Thailand. These programs are focused on increasing knowledge of and access to HIV prevention and care programs among most-at-risk-populations (MARPs). The government of Thailand has recently approved a USAID initiative to implement demonstration projects that will provide same-day, rapid HTC for MSM. This group includes male sex workers (MSWs), MSM, men who have sex with men and women, and male-to-female transgender people (TG). The overall goal of the demonstration projects is to increase access to and uptake of HTC services among MSM and will be implemented and monitored for approximately two years. If the HTC models implemented during the demonstration projects prove successful, similar models could be adapted and scaled up in other provinces with the assistance of GFATM. |
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HIV infection and AIDS are important public health problems in Vietnam. Since HIV was Download this publication |
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Rapid socioeconomic transformation in Vietnam in last 15 years has been followed by more liberation of sexual expression and representation of sexual identity among young people. There has been an increase in the visibility of homosexual men in major cities of Vietnam who were largely an unknown population until the emergence of the HIV epidemic. Download this publication |
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Pakistan has always confronted with a drug abuse problem ever since its existence and today, the country has the largest heroin consumer market in the south-west Asia region. While the entire region suffers from the drug trade in South Asia, Pakistan appears to be its worst victim. Download this publication |
