2022 World AIDS Day Factsheet - Nepal

Each year the annual estimates of key indicators among people living with HIV in Nepal are finalized by using AIDS Epidemic Model and Spectrum/AIM. Various survey and research data (key population size, Nepal Demographic Health Survey, trends of prevalence and behavioral data from integrated biological and behavioral surveillance surveys, behavioral information on condom use, sexual behavior, injecting practice, number of clients etc.) and program data like people on ART and PMTCT data are used as input in the analytical tools to prepare annual estimates of the status of the HIV epidemic in Nepal. The HIV epidemic in Nepal remains largely concentrated among key populations (people who inject drugs, sex workers and their clients, men who have sex with men and transgender people, male labour migrants and their wives and prison inmates).