Publications on Key Populations

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Lao PDR.

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Cambodia.

The country card snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Malaysia.

Mongolia Country Card Snapshots provide quick overview data on new HIV infection trends, prevalence, treatment cascades, PMTCT, behavior and response, AIDS financing, stigma index, and punitive laws.

A new report by UNAIDS, Power to the people, released ahead of #WorldAIDSDay, shows that where people and communities living with and affected by HIV are engaged in decision-making and #HIV service delivery, new infections decline and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment. When people have the power to choose, to know, to thrive, to demand and to work together, lives are saved, injustices are prevented and dignity is restored.

In 2018: 54% of new HIV infections were among key populations and their sexual partners, 40% decrease in new HIV infections since the peak in 1997, 37.9 million people living with HIV in the world, 1 700 000 children living with HIV (under 15 years).

Communities make an invaluable contribution to the AIDS response. Communities of people living with HIV, of key populations—gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, sex workers, prisoners, transgender people and prisoners—and of women and young people lead and support the delivery of HIV services, defend human rights, support their peers. Communities are the lifeblood of an effective AIDS response and an important pillar of support.

Community-led organizations are led by the people who they serve and are primarily accountable to them. In the AIDS response, this includes organizations by and for people living with HIV or tuberculosis and organizations by and for people affected by HIV, including gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, prisoners, sex workers, transgender people, women and young people.

The report describes the findings from S&D surveys on health care provider and PLHIV and HIV integrated biological and behavioral surveillance (IBBS) among female and male sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender women. Also described within this report are the methodologies used to collect data from 19 provinces and the extrapolation process of provincial level data to provide national estimates. Of additional importance is that the process of data collection and extrapolation involved national capacity building to ensure technical expertise exists at the country level for follow up S&D surveys of PLHIV, KP, and health care providers.

This Briefing Note outlines Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the challenges it presents for sex workers and other criminalised populations.