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Achieving the 2025 and 2030 goals will require strong political leadership and the active engagement of people living with HIV and key and vulnerable populations across multiple sectors. Resources will need to be mobilized from both domestic and international sources. Sustainability will require different measures and approaches in diverse settings, highlighting the importance of tailoring sustainability planning and implementation for specific contexts, with existing efforts being leveraged. Flexibility and resilience will be essential in the face of changes in national HIV epidemics as well as in economic, political and social contexts. This Primer document outlines a new approach to planning and implementing sustainable national HIV responses, that aims to galvanize efforts and to drive sustainable HIV Response transformations to reach and maintain epidemic control beyond 2030, by upholding the right to health for all. Through country driven and owned processes based on the most recent data, countries will develop specific HIV Response Sustainability Roadmaps. These Roadmaps will identify high-level outcomes across key domains of sustainability, including political leadership, quality access to services, system capacities, enabling policies, and domestic and international financing.

ANNOUNCING THE ASIA PACIFIC WORLD AIDS DAY REPORT LAUNCH AND SHARE FAIR Please invite communities of people living with HIV, key populations and other civil society organizations in your country to join our virtual World AIDS Day share fair. They will be briefed on the 2023 World AIDS Day report and learn from other community leaders about strategies for stronger social media and news media engagement to advance their advocacy agendas. DATE: Thursday 30th November, 2023 TIME: 1PM Bangkok time HOST: Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, UNAIDS Asia Pacific Goodwill Ambassador FEATURING: 7 Alliance, APCOM, GWL-INA, Lighthouse Social Enterprise, TLF Share INTERPRETATION: Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese REGISTER: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__ldBxIwsTfqq6KlaY7s1ww#/registration

From the start of the HIV pandemic, one of the distinguishing features of the HIV response has been the central role played by communities. The invaluable innovation, passion and insight of communities have proven pivotal in getting the world to the point where there is a clear path to end AIDS as a public health threat. When the HIV pandemic was first recognized in the early 1980s, opportunities to respond effectively were hampered by the dominance in too many places of top-down approaches that combined insufficient engagement with the communities most heavily affected with disrespect and even hostility towards them. 

This page presents an update to key data in our flagship report, The Global State of Harm Reduction. The full report is published every two years, with updates to key data in between editions of the report. This update summarises some of the key developments in harm reduction and drug policy since the launch of the 8th edition in November 2022.

HIV sero-surveillance which was initiated in 1985 has evolved over the years as one of the most fundamental strategic information functions, facilitating evidence-based decision-making under the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP) of the Government of India. Inmates at the central jails were included as one of the HIV surveillance population groups under NACP in India during the 2019 round of surveillance.

HIV sero-surveillance, initiated in 1985, has evolved over the years as one of the most fundamental strategic information functions, facilitating evidence-based decision-making under the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP) of the Government of India. In 2021, the 17th round of HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS) was implemented across the following eight population groups: pregnant women, single male migrants, long distance truckers, prisoners, female sex workers, men who have sex with men, hijra/transgender people and injecting drug users. 

National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) tracks the status of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through a robust institutional system of surveillance in eight population groups: Antenatal Clinic Attendees (ANC), Female Sex Workers (FSW), Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), Injecting Drug Users (IDU), Hijra/Transgender (H/TG) people, inmates in central jails, migrants and Long-Distance Truckers (LDT). 

The Ministry of Health of Bhutan formally started the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program in 2006. Services were nonetheless provided prior to the formal PMTCT program introduction, and the first PMTCT guideline was developed in 2006. PMTCT services are integrated into the general health system and are delivered as an integral component of mother and child health services. PMTCT is a core component under both the national strategic plans for the prevention and control of HIV/STIs (2018-2023) and viral hepatitis (2022-2026). These plans aimed to eliminate new infections among children by 2020 and end AIDs as a public health threat by 2030. 

Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and usually curable disease. Yet in 2022, TB was the world’s second leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, after coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and caused almost twice as many deaths as HIV/AIDS. More than 10 million people continue to fall ill with TB every year. Urgent action is required to end the global TB epidemic by 2030, a goal that has been adopted by all Member States of the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The assessment serves to document and review the situation in relation to the current human rights and gender related programmatic responses being implemented across the country, aimed at reducing barriers to services for key populations. For the purpose of this assessment the main key populations in Bangladesh include female sex workers (FSW), people who use drugs and populations with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual characteristics and expression (SOGIESC) such as men who have sex with men (MSM), male sex workers (MSW) and Transgender people/Hijra/Third Gender (TG).