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HIV was first identified in an American tourist in 1985 and the first epidemic of HIV infections was detected among drug users in the border regions of China in 1989. china is experiencing a low-prevalence epidemic, although some key regions are experiencing high prevalence epidemics.
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As of 2007, the Democratic's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had an estimated population of 24 million, of which 24% are young people aged 10-24 years. Very little data on HIV prevalence and incidence is available.
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Sri Lanka - one of the few countries in the Asia Pacific region with a low-level epidemic - had an estimated adult HIV prevalence of less than 0.1% in 2009. The first case of HIV was detected in 1987, and it has been estimated that 2,800 people were living with HIV in 2009, up from 1,300 in 2001.
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The first HIV case in the Philippines was detected in 1984. By the end of 2010, 6,015 individuals reported to the Philippines HIV and AIDS Registry, with more than one-fourth of all new infections being detected in 2010.
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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].
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The first case of HIV infection in Mongolia was detected in 1992. While it has remained a low prevalence country with the number of adults and children living with HIV estimated to be less than 500, the number has been increasing with 92% of all cases reported in the last five years, a cumulative of 62 reported HIV cases.
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As of 2009, there were an estimated 8,100 [6,300 - 10,000] people living with HIV and AIDS in Japan with around the third - 2,700 - comprised of women. The number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) since 1996 has continued to steadily rise with 1,075 reported new cases of HIV and 469 new cases of AIDS reported in 2010.
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The first cases of HIV were diagnosed among sex workers in Chennai in 1986. Since then, the country has evolved from a "low" to "concentrated" epidemic; the national HIV prevalence has steadily grown, not only among key affected populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers and injecting drug users (IDUs), but also spreading into the general population in several states.
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A review of 10 of the new National Strategic Plans (NSPs) that had either been approved or were in final draft stage was conducted by UNAIDS RST and the regional HIV and AIDS Data Hub between August – December 2011 in order to assess whether: a) they contained various essential elements that have been defined to constitute an effective response for the countries in the region4, b) to look for improvement in the regional strategic planning in terms of process and components of an effective response, and c) to establish the information necessary for working with countries to review whether NSPs are sufficiently aligned towards the new United Nations High Level Meeting targets that all countries have endorsed.
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Since 1987, when the first case of HIV was reported, the rapidly increasing number of new HIV infections in Indonesia makes the epidemic one of the fastest growing in Asia. In 2009, an estimated 310,000 [200,000 - 460,000] adults and children were living with HIV of which an estimated 88,000 [58,000 - 130,000] were women 15 years and older.