Scaling Up Towards Universal Access to Prevention, Treatment, and Care and Support: Malaysia

There are 67,528 cumulative cases of HIV/AIDS reported in Malaysia up to June 20051. For the last five years, the number of newly detected HIV cases has been at an average of 6000 to 6900 per year. Since the disease emerged in 1986, the profile of HIV infection has remained consistently driven by the injecting drug users (IDUs), male, young people aged 20-39 years and among the Malay ethnic group.