Presentations

The objectives of this presentation are to estimate the prevalence of HIV and syphilis among people who inject drugs (PWID) and people who use drugs (PWUD) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) among PWID, to examine HIV risk behaviors among PWID and PWUD: illicit drug use behaviors, substance abuse, and other health issues including healthcare seeking behaviors and exposure to HIV programs and to estimate the national population size of PWID and PWUD by types of drug used.

New data confirm that the practice of child marriage has continued to decline around the world, with accelerated progress in the last 10 years. Progress is insufficient to meet the ambitious target of elimination, as set forth in the SDGs. The global number of child brides is now estimated at 650 million. The number of girls married in childhood each year, according to the latest prevalence and population figures is estimated at 12 million.

The WHO Global Ministerial Conference “Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response” aims to accelerate country implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy in order to reach the End TB targets set by the World Health Assembly and the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Ministerial Conference will inform the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on TB in 2018.

Hepatitis A is a notifiable disease under the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap 599) of the Hong Kong laws. An unusual increase in the number of hepatitis A among attendees of Integrated Treatment Centre (ITC) of Department of Health (DH), who were HIV positive men who have sex with men (MSM), were recorded by CHP recently. Retrospective analysis of laboratory information revealed that the virus from most of the cases reported since September 2015 were shown to be identical to either one of two genetically distinguishable groups within genotype 1A (4 and 8 cases, 1 case pending). Investigation is ongoing to study if the outbreak has spread to other MSM in the community.

The presentation shows Situation of the HIV Epidemic in Cambodia, sex behavioral, HIV and STI trends among brothel-based sex workers, Key Lessons Learned from Cambodia 1.0: How Cambodia stabilized HIV epidemic, major challenges and more.

By Ioannis Hodges-Mameletzis World Health Organization HIV Department Geneva, Switzerland

-Commitments on ending AIDS and Fast-Track targets  -Regional overview -Public health model of HIV  -How HIV response model can benefit other communicable diseases

From barriers to bridges: Increasing access to HIV and other health services for trans people in Asia 20 September 2017 Bangkok, Thailand

Presented by Eamonn Murphy Regional Director UNAIDS Asia and the Pacific at From barriers to bridges: Increasing access to HIV and other health services for trans people in Asia. 20 September 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

Maternal Mortality Ratio decreased from 539/100,000 live births in 1996 (NHFS) to 258 in 2015 (WHO). Inadequate attention in improving maternal and newborn health services in remote or mountainous areas of Nepal. Both demand-side and supply-side combined package of intervention has greatest improvement in use of maternal and new born health services in remote areas.