According to a UNAIDS Regional Support Team (RST) baseline analysis at the end of 2009, 16 Asian countries and 7 countries in the Pacific region were expected to be developing new National Strategic Plans (NSPs) during the 2010‐2011 biennium1.

An analysis in 2008 of the previous round of NSPs of 18 countries found that 15 were not targeted for an effective HIV response: they lacked appropriate prioritization of populations and sub‐regions; did not specify elements of effective interventions for implementation; had no monitoring and evaluation systems built in; and lacked resource estimates, and costed operational plans (Regional Training Workshop On Costing NSPs in Asia‐Pacific, UNAIDS‐ADB‐World Bank‐ASAP‐UNDP, Sept. 2008).