Publications on People Living With HIV (PLHIV)

Sri Lanka Country Card Snapshots provide quick overview data on new HIV infection trends, prevalence, treatment cascades, PMTCT, behavior and response, AIDS financing, stigma index, and punitive laws.

In 2018: 54% of new HIV infections were among key populations and their sexual partners, 40% decrease in new HIV infections since the peak in 1997, 37.9 million people living with HIV in the world, 1 700 000 children living with HIV (under 15 years).

Community-led organizations are led by the people who they serve and are primarily accountable to them. In the AIDS response, this includes organizations by and for people living with HIV or tuberculosis and organizations by and for people affected by HIV, including gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, prisoners, sex workers, transgender people, women and young people.

Communities make an invaluable contribution to the AIDS response. Communities of people living with HIV, of key populations—gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, sex workers, prisoners, transgender people and prisoners—and of women and young people lead and support the delivery of HIV services, defend human rights, support their peers. Communities are the lifeblood of an effective AIDS response and an important pillar of support.

The report describes the findings from S&D surveys on health care provider and PLHIV and HIV integrated biological and behavioral surveillance (IBBS) among female and male sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender women. Also described within this report are the methodologies used to collect data from 19 provinces and the extrapolation process of provincial level data to provide national estimates. Of additional importance is that the process of data collection and extrapolation involved national capacity building to ensure technical expertise exists at the country level for follow up S&D surveys of PLHIV, KP, and health care providers.

The publication presents cascade of HIV testing, care and treatment services, 2014–2015 for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor Leste.

Greatly expanded access to routine viral load testing will be a game-changer in the global response to AIDS.

Girls and women make up more than half of the 36.9 million people living with HIV. Ending AIDS by 2030 requires that we address girls’ and women’s diverse roles by putting them at the centre of the response.

In August 2018, there were 1,047 new HIV antibody seropositive individuals reported to the HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP). Seventeen percent (176) had clinical manifestations of advanced HIV infection (WHO clinical stage 3 or 4) at the time of diagnosis.

The aim of this tool is to help countries that are planning to undertake rapid and robust data quality assessment (DQA) of national and partner data quality with a particular emphasis on HIV treatment while improving and supporting patient monitoring systems to improve data quality and use.