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Sri Lanka continues to have very low HIV prevalence. The first HIV infection in the country was reported in 1987, and since 2009, a total of 1196 HIV infections and AIDS cases have been cumulatively reported in the country. As per the Report on HIV Estimates and Projections 2009, prepared by the National STD and AIDS Control Programme, HIV prevalence among the adult population is 0.02 percent, and an estimated 3,000 people are living with HIV and AIDS. There has been a steady increase in the number of reported cases over the years, in part due to the increase in HIV testing facilities and the availability of antiretroviral treatment. |
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A few steps away, the Silom Community Clinic (SCC) is also opening its doors. Housed in a quiet, private space at Bangkok Christian Hospital, SCC provides HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) services to men who have sex with men (MSM), including transgender persons. A welcome retreat from the chaos of Silom Road, yet easily accessible to its MSM clients, SCC has served hundreds of MSM since it opened in 2005. |
Hit and Run: The Impact of Anti Trafficking Policy and Practice on Sex Worker’s Human Rights in Thailand. Empower Foundation (2012)
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Empower is a Thai sex worker organization started by Ms Chantawipa Apisuk, a group of sex workers and activists in Patpong, Bangkok’s in 1984.In 2010 Empower decided to undertake a nation-wide community research project to identify and document the impact of the current Thai anti-trafficking law, policy and practice, on sex workers in Thailand, and to develop relevant and achievable solutions. There were 206 Thai and migrant sex workers had become part of the RATS-W project; leading the research consultations, interviewing, giving expert testimony, investigating and undertaking the analysis and preliminary documentation. The 206 sex workers who worked on the project can be divided into 170 research partners; 36 research leaders coordinated by a research working team of four. They are all referred to herein as research leaders,research partners or sex workers interchangeably. |
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Since 2004, Sisters has provided health, education, and support services to the TG community in Pattaya, a two-hour drive from Bangkok in Chonburi Province. Its goal is to offer a safe and welcoming place for TG people to seek friendship and support, and to encourage the practice of preventive behaviors such as regular HIV testing and counseling (HTC) as well as screening for other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). |
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The UN estimates that over the last few years between 15,000 - 20,000 people living with HIV die annually in Myanmar, because of lack of access to urgent lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Lives in the Balance outlines the situation for people affected by HIV and TB, with a special focus on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), in Myanmar today. It calls for urgent funding and assistance to be made available by the international donor community to help Myanmar dose the devastating gap between people's need and people's access to treatment for HIV and TB. Download this publication |
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to have a devastating, though often invisible, impact on gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world. In low and middle-income countries, MSM are 19 times more likely to be living with HIV than people in the general population and they represent an estimated 10 percent of new infections each year. Yet for decades the epidemic among MSM was officially ignored by governments, donors, and whole societies. |
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World Drug Report (2010) estimates that there are 16 to 38 million problem drug users across the world and that about 11 to 21 million inject drugs. Based on a desk review, it was estimated that 3·0 million (range 0·8 - 6·6 million) of those who inject drugs might be HIV positive. Download this publication |
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This project is the first research to be conducted with men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (Tg) people in Fiji since 1998. It aims to inform the public health response to HIV and sexual health among MSM and Tg in Fiji and assist in the development of community-based activities. The research was community-based and the survey data were collected by MSM and Tg community research assistants. |
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The objective of this report is to provide a rapid assessment of migration and mobility as key influences on the distribution and spread of HIV in the Pacific. While this has been established globally with targeted and tailored prevention programmes on mobility and HIV in a number of countries, the Pacific has yet to develop appropriate responses that take migration and mobility into consideration and ensure that HIV interventions address the drivers of mobility and the specific vulnerabilities that mobility creates. Download this publication |
