Publications on Key Populations

The objectives of this presentation are to raise AIDS awareness among MSM, increase safer sexual behaviors among MSM and their sexual partners and increase access to “MSM-friendly” services for STI, VCT and HIV care and treatment.

The first case of AIDS was identified in Indonesia in 1987 in a foreign male tourist. During the decade thereafter, the epidemic appeared to grow slowly, spreading primarily among men and almost exclusively through sexual transmission.

The present report would provide the detailed findings of BSS 2006 conducted among two high-risk population groups of IDUs and MSM, about their awareness, knowledge, attitude, and behaviour with regards to STD/HIV/AID

The objectives of the IBBS are: measure estimates of the following among IDU, FSW, and MSM populations, provide key information for advocacy and policy making including UNGASS indicators, and use information for national estimates and projections.

The present report details the observations of the National BSS 2006 among the FSWs and their clients, which was conducted in all states and union territories of the country.

I was born male and identify as one. Until recently I hadn't asked myself why I had turned out this way. Yet many transpeople I know have long asked this question of themselves. What's more, there is a small army of researchers trying to uncover answers to the same question. Relatively few seem interested in going up to a trans person and simply asking him or her 'Why do you think you turned out this way?

In 2006 the Ministry of Health and provincial Health Offices in Tanah Papua, in collaboration with the National/Local AIDS Commission, Statistics Indonesia (BPS), with support from the World Bank and USAID – FHI/ASA has completed IBBS in Tanah Papua.

The primary objective of the STI survey is to determine the prevalence of Neisseriagonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Treponema pallidum, HIV, and related risk behaviors among specific sentinel groups.

The results of this study will be used to design new interventions, inform current project activities and surveillance studies, and contribute to our efforts at modeling the epidemic in Bangladesh.

This study is the second round of the integrated bio-behavioral survey (IBBS) conducted among 200 female sex workers (FSWs), both street and establishment based, in Pokhara.