Malaysia: AIDS/STD Section Annual Report 2004

In facing up the scourge of HIV/AIDS, the Malaysian Government has initiated actions well before the first case of HIV was detected in 1986. An inter-sectoral committee chaired by the Director-General of Health, known as the National HIV/AIDS Task Force was formed in 1985, to be the body responsible for formulating policies, strategic action plans as well as coordinating the HIV/AIDS prevention and control programs in the country at that time.