Myanmar: Reference Materials
 | The estimates and data provided in the following tables relate to 2005 unless stated otherwise. These estimates have been produced and compiled by UNAIDS/WHO. They have been shared with national AIDS programmes for review and comments, but are not necessarily the official estimates used by national governments. In order to calculate regional totals, older data or regional models were used to produce minimum estimates for these countries. Download this publication |
| Myanmar is one of the countries hardest hit by the HIV epidemic in Asia. In 2004, a workshop organized by the National AIDS Programme (NAP), with support from World Health Organization (WHO) and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), estimated that 338 911 adults between 15 and 49 years of age were living with HIV. The figure falls within the range of 170 000 to 620 000 HIV-infected adults and children in Myanmar estimated by WHO and UNAIDS for the same year. The NAP, with support from WHO and the participation of UNAIDS and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), conducted an external review of the national health response to HIV/AIDS from 27 March to 7 April 2006 as part of the process of development of the National Strategic Plan 2006-2010. Download this publication |
| The increasing number of injecting drug us- ers (IDUs) and the growing HIV/AIDS epi- demic in Burma presents one of the most serious health threats to the population in the country, and also to the region at large. Infection rates among IDUs in Burma are among the highest in the world. Download this publication |
| The Joint Programme for HIV/AIDS in Myanmar, 2003-2005, was designed and established by the UN Expanded Theme Group on HIV/AIDS to mobilise additional support for the national response to AIDS. It provided the logical framework to manage new contributions from a variety of donors – notably through the Fund for HIV/AIDS in Myanmar – to scale up programmes in support of the National Strategic Plan 2001- 2005 and of the operational plans of implementing partners for this period. The Joint Programme stimulated and fostered an increasing number of national and international actors to fight AIDS, and has contributed to concrete achievements as detailed especially in Chapter III of this report. Download this publication |
| This report presents the achievements of implementing partners of the Fund for HIV/AIDS in Myanmar (FHAM) for the fiscal year 01 April 2005 to 31 March 2006. This report is neither, therefore, a report on the HIV epidemic, nor a report on the wider national response to the epidemic in Myanmar. The FHAM was established in 2003, and in the fiscal year 2005, donors contributing to the FHAM were the United Kingdom’s Department for International Develop- ment (DFID), Sweden’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (SIDA), and the Governments of the Netherlands and Norway. Download this publication |
| With national estimated prevalence of between 0.6% and 2.2%, Myanmar is experiencing a generalized epidemic, considered one of the most serious in Asia. The Ministry of Health estimates that 338 911 adults aged 15–49 years old were living with HIV/AIDS in September 2004, of which 96 834 (28.6%) were women, indicating a total adult prevalence rate of 1.3%. HIV infection rates vary across the country, with several regions showing considerable increases in prevalence rates among less vulnerable populations. According to the Ministry of Health, in 2003, 12 of 29 sentinel sites for pregnant women showed a prevalence of HIV infection exceeding 2%. At Pyay and Hpa-an, prevalence rates among pregnant women were as high as 5% and 7.5% respectively. Download this publication |
| The purpose of the 2005 Progress Report on the National Response to HIV is to provide a quick overview of the response to HIV and AIDS in Myanmar during the year. In its role as the coordinator of the national response to HIV and AIDS, the National AIDS Programme has collected data and information from all partners working on HIV in Myanmar, including those from Government Departments, United Nations organizations and national and international non-governmental organizations. This report there- fore presents a snapshot for 2005 of the collective activities of pro- grammes on HIV in Myanmar. Download this publication |
| HIV prevalence in the country during the period January-December 2004 based on sentinel surveillance data. Download this publication |
| AIDS is one of the priority diseases of the National Health Plan of Myanmar. The National Health Committee has laid down clear guidelines to fight AIDS as a national concern. The National AIDS Committee, founded since 1989 is an active multisectoral body for formation of National Strategic Plan to prevent and control HIV/AIDS in Myanmar. Download this publication |
