The evidence supporting U = U addresses the drivers of criminalization of HIV transmission by challenging the outdated norms that HIV infection is a death sentence and that HIV is easily transmitted to sexual partners.

HIV stigma and criminalization remain key barriers in many countries to reaching the targets in the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS and the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026.
 

As the UN's only cosponsored Joint Programme, UNAIDS has spearheaded a coordinated, multisectoral HIV response for nearly 30 years.

The Global Fund strategy for 2023-2028 has three mutually reinforcing contributory objectives. One critical objective is Maximizing the Engagement and Leadership of Most Affected Communities to Leave No One Behind, which specifically applies to GC7.

ANNOUNCING THE ASIA PACIFIC WORLD AIDS DAY REPORT LAUNCH AND SHARE FAIR

Please invite communities of people living with HIV, key populations and other civil society organizations in your country to join our virtual World AIDS Day share fair. They will be briefed on the 2023 World AIDS Day report and learn from other community leaders about strategies for stronger social media and news media engagement to advance their advocacy agendas.

DATE: Thursday 30th November, 2023

TIME: 1PM Bangkok time

The assessment serves to document and review the situation in relation to the current human rights and gender related programmatic responses being implemented across the country, aimed at reducing barriers to services for key populations.

The Bangladesh government is committed to limit the prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among key populations (KPs) at a low level. The current mapping, size estimation, and behavioral survey was conducted among the KP groups, namely, female sex workers (FSW), people who inject drugs (PWID), and men who have sex with men(MSM/MSW). Regular updates of the estimated KP size and their mapping are important for planning, priority setting, designing effective interventions, resource allocation, and monitoring.

Cambodia has achieved remarkable success in reducing annual new HIV infections, from an estimated 15,000 in 1996 to 1,400 in
2022. However, rising HIV incidence among young people aged 15-24, particularly among men who have sex with men (MSM),
transgender women (TG), and people engaged in sexualized drug use (chemsex) is counteracting reductions in new infections.
 

The indicators and questions in this document are designed for use by national AIDS programmes and partners to assess the state of a country’s HIV and AIDS response, and to measure progress towards achieving national HIV targets. Countries are encouraged to integrate these indicators and questions into their ongoing monitoring efforts and to report comprehensive national data through the Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) process.

This information brief is intended for key population networks and other community-led and community-based organizations to help them better understand how to request funding support for community-led monitoring (CLM) in 2023-2025 applications to the Global Fund. The brief has been jointly developed by TREAT Asia/amfAR and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC).