Publications on People Living With HIV (PLHIV)

It is believed that HIV prevalence in Timor-Leste is currently low. However HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact on other countries in comparable circumstances to Timor-Leste.

Presentations slides on the HIV/AIDS in Malaysia Impact on the Quality of Life during the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development on 12 March 2006

There are 67,528 cumulative cases of HIV/AIDS reported in Malaysia up to June 20051. For the last five years, the number of newly detected HIV cases has been at an average of 6000 to 6900 per year.

From late December 2005 to March 2006, the Philippines undertook a series of initiatives to develop its targets and roadmap in line with the global initiative towards “Scaling Up Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support”.

Mongolia is a country in North East Asia with a population of 2.5 million. Since 1992 there were 16 cases of HIV/AIDS reported. As of December 2005 the number of HIV/AIDS cases is estimated to be less than 500 cases (WHO/UNAIDS Global Report).

In Cambodia, a national consultation on universal access was held on February 7, 2006, with participation from representatives from government, civil society, the donor community, and other stakeholders. This document refines the initial country report, in line with the recommendations that arose from the regional consultation.

The report that follows will describe the nature of the HIV epidemic in Nepal as well as the performance of the national response, its obstacles, goals, key targets and actions for a scaled-up effort towards universal access.

This report presents Papua New Guinea’s response to scaling up towards Universal Access. This new initiative places greater emphasis on scaling up prevention, treatment, care and support within the country.

This second report measures progress made by countries and describes how international partners are supporting their efforts. In addition, it summarizes how the building blocks of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy programmes are being put into place and how issues beyond treatment are being addressed.

An estimated 1,700 children under the age of 15 are infected by HIV around the globe everyday. Many of these are young children, infected at birth by mothers who are unaware of their HIV status. The number continues to rise as more women are infected by partners who adopt high risk behaviours such as injecting drugs, buying sex, and having multiple sexual partners.