Publications on Key Populations

HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2007 was conducted at 1134 sentinel sites – 646 sites among the general population and 488 sites among the high-risk group population in India.

In Bangladesh it is widely acknowledged that drug use is increasing and accompanied with this are various risk behaviors. Particular concerns are injecting drug use and adverse health consequences such as blood-borne viruses specifically HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.

This report provides biological and behavioural information of HIV related high-risk groups (HRGs) from the 3rd round of surveillance, conducted from March to June 2008 in Pakistan.

A meeting held on 15–17 September 2008 in Geneva brought together participants from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its United Nations (UN) partners along with representatives from 26 countries to discuss the role that the health sector can and should play in addressing prevention, treatment and care of HIV and other STIs among MSM, transgender people and their sexual partners.

This study is the third round of the IBBS and was conducted from June through to August 2008, among 200 female sex workers (FSWs) in Pokhara.

This study is the third round of the IBBS conducted from June through August 2008 among 500 Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in the Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Lalitpur districts).

The Epidemiological Fact Sheets are one of the products of close collaboration around the globe. the Fact Sheets collate the most recent country-specific data on HIV prevalence and incidence, together with information on behaviour determined to be important in understanding the epidemic.

The Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BSS) is a significant step in understanding and monitoring the levels of risk behavior associated with HIV infection within selected, most-at-risk populations (MARP) in the country.

We undertook this study to describe the risk factors for HIV infection in female sex workers (FSWs), and to determine the commercial sex venues where FSWs are most at risk of being infected with or infecting others with HIV.

Behavioral sentinel surveillance (BSS) provides the descriptive epidemiology of sexual behaviors among the most-at-risk groups. BSS 2007 is the seventh round of BSS.