Myanmar Country Review 2011

Myanmar detected its first case of HIV in 1988 and is still experiencing a concentrated HIV epidemic. Surveillance data and epidemiological models suggest a decreasing trend in HIV prevalence in the general population aged 15-49 from 0.8% in 2001 to 0.6% in 2009 – still the third highest among countries in the South-East Asian Region. The estimated number of people living with HIV in 2009 was 240,000 [160,000 – 320,000].