Publications on People Living With HIV (PLHIV)

This report identifies many ways in which governments and global agencies must act to correct systems essential to delivery of health.

This document examines whether the laws and policies currently in South Asia are adequate to meet the challenges posed by the threat of HIV/AIDS.

Despite the pervasiveness of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in national HIV epidemics and their harmful impact in terms of public health and human rights, they remain seriously neglected issues in most national responses to HIV.

The aim of this review was to gather information relating to HIV prevention, care and treatment in prisons in the WHO South-East Asia Region. Countries selected for inclusion in the review were India, Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand.

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) conducted research in South Asia on emerging efforts in women’s inheritance and property rights as an AIDS response. This special edition is for audiences of the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, which features a Regional Court of Women and symposium on the subject.

This document aims to assess prevalence and correlates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, risk factors, and HIV knowledge among tuberculosis patients in Afghanistan.

Our study objective was to describe the course of the HIV prevalence among TB patients in Ho Chi Minh City during 1997–2002. By combining our data with the NTP reporting data, we also quantifi ed the effect of HIV on the TB reporting rates in this city.

In January 2006, the Chinese government along with WHO and UNAIDS jointly estimated that 650,000 people were living with HIV in China, including about 75,000 AIDS patients. During 2005 there were around 70,000 new HIV infections and 25,000 AIDS deaths.1 These large numbers have to be considered in the context of China's extremely large population which is estimated at around 1,300 million.

This review is aimed at generating informed discussion among key stakeholders including academia, policy makers, governments, donors and people living with HIV on the phenomenon of stigma and discrimination, with a particular focus on its human development context and impact.

National STD/AIDS Control Programme, Department of Health Service, HIV/AIDS Estimates for Sri Lanka as of end 2005