A Rapid Assessment of Multi-month Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis the Asia-Pacific Region

The purpose of this rapid assessment1 is to investigate the current status of multi-month dispensing (MMD) in 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific region of UNAIDS - Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Vietnam. It aims to determine the current stages of MMD implementation, identify good practices, factors enabling successful MMD implementation as well as barriers and bottlenecks. It will also investigate MMD with regard to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the two countries where PrEP programming is currently being implemented (Thailand and Vietnam).