Country Progress Report - Singapore: Global AIDS Monitoring 2018

At the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS that took place in June in New York, Member States adopted a new Political Declaration which contained new targets to effectively respond to the AIDS epidemic. The 2011 Political Declaration mandates UNAIDS to support countries in reporting back on progress made towards achieving the new commitments. It also provides for the UN Secretary-General to report regularly to the General Assembly on progress achieved in realizing these commitments.

The first case of HIV was diagnosed in Singapore in 1985. Since then, the number of HIV notifications among Singapore residents has increased from 2 in 1985 to a cumulative total of 7,982 as of 31 Dec 2017. Of these, 1,960 (25%) have died.