Publications on Key Populations

The National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) is useful tool to inform policy decision on effective allocation of limited resources. It provides information on amount of resource used and pattern of spending. NASA reports resource availability, when matching with resource need forecast, a financial gap is estimated.

The document shows number of new HIV infection, AIDS cases and AIDS death in Malaysia from 1986-2004.

All rounds of surveillance conducted so far in Bangladesh, including the fifth round, the population groups selected were confined to those considered to be most vulnerable and some bridging populations.

The objective of the BSS (Wave II) was to provide trends of behavioral indicators to inform program development for the expansion of interventions aimed at the reduction in the transmission of HIV/AIDS and STIs in the selected districts of Maharashtra.

The survey was conducted in late 2003 in the capital city, Dili, among female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), taxi drivers and male military personnel.

The aim of the study is to assess the sociodemographic, behavioural, and psychological factors associated with inconsistent condom use among clients of sex workers.

In 2002 the Indonesian Ministry of Health, with ASA/FHI/USAID conducted a National Estimates of Adult HIV Infection. Those estimates were a great step to estimate the magnitude of burden diseases in the future.

The 2003 Technical Report provides the facts and figures gathered by the National HIV/AIDS Sentinel Surveillance System (NHSSS) from 1993. It includes data from the AIDS Registry, the Serologic Surveillance and the Behavioral Surveillance. This report also features the data from the newly setup Sentinel STI Etiologic Surveillance System.

This current publication “Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Drug Users: Case Studies from Asia”, addresses the dissemination of good practices on HIV/AIDS prevention and care interventions among drug users.

In Cambodia, sentinel surveillance data are used for estimating national HIV prevalence and modeling trends in HIV and AIDS incidence and mortality.