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IBBS surveys have been successfully conducted in various rounds in Nepal for the last about a decade among key populations at higher risk for HIV. Different round of IBBS were successfully carried out under leadership of NCASC .Evidences from different rounds of IBBS surveys carried out in Nepal suggest that HIV prevalence is still high among PWID compared to other Key population such as Female Sex workers (PWID) and Male having sex with Male (MSM). This is six round of IBBS surveys among PWID West to Far West Terai Districts.

According to the results of the 2017 Revision, the world’s population numbered nearly 7.6 billion as of mid-2017, implying that the world has added approximately one billion people over the last twelve years. The growth of the world’s population has slowed down in the recent past. Ten years ago, the world’s population was growing by 1.24 per cent per year; today, it is growing by 1.10 per cent per year, yielding an additional 83 million people annually. Based on the projection assumptions made in the 2017 Revision, the growth of the world’s population is expected to slow down even further in the future, and the population is projected to reach about 8.6 billion in 2030.

This third edition of the Unitaid/WHO market and technology landscape: HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing report summarizes the current HIV testing gap; the challenges facing efforts to scale up; and the potential role HIV self-testing (HIVST) could play to achieve the United Nation’s 90-90-90 targets. In particular, the report synthesises the existing and emerging market demand and supply of kits.

This is the fifteenth Report on Tuberculosis (TB) situation of SAARC Region which is being published by SAARC Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Centre (STAC) in a series that started in 2003, which includes a compilation of regional and country-specific achievements, challenges and plans. The main purpose of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress made in TB care and control at Global, SAARC Region and Member States level.

This IBBS Survey among FSWs (FSWs) in Kathmandu Valley is the sixth round of survey. It was conducted first time in 2004. The survey was undertaken primarily to track the trend of HIV infection, to access information about the safe sex practices, sexual behavioral, knowledge of HIV and STI, explore the association between risk behaviors and infections with HIV or STI. More specifically, the survey was conducted to collect socio-demographic characteristics; alcohol and drug use and needle sharing behaviors; the experience of stigma, discrimination and physical, sexual and other forms of violence; and exposure to HIV and AIDs program.

HIV in Nepal is characterized as a concentrated epidemic. Nepal is categorized as a country facing concentrated HIV epidemic. IBBS surveys have been successfully conducted in various rounds in Nepal for the last about a decade among key populations at higher risk for HIV. This is the first round of IBBS surveys among MSM/TG of Pokhara Valley and carried out under the leadership of National Center for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC) with financial and technical support from Save the Children-Global Fund.

This is the seventh round of Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance (IBBS) survey conducted among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Kathmandu Valley. The survey was undertaken primarily to track the trend of HIV, Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV) and Syphilis prevalence and to understand the associated risky sexual behaviors among the PWID of Kathmandu Valley.

Contraceptive prevalence, a measure that represents the proportion of women who currently use a contraceptive method, does not take into account the duration or interruption of use, or changes in method, which have an impact on the effectiveness of contraceptive use. Using data from the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health survey, this study estimated rates of contraceptive discontinuation, failure, and switching, including reasons for discontinuation, among married women age 15-49, and estimated the associations with selected socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. The study found that one in every four women surveyed discontinued their contraceptive method during the first year of use. The two most commonly cited reasons for discontinuation were desire to become pregnant and health concerns with the method, while cost or access were rarely reported as reasons for discontinuation.

This report explores issues related to fertility among young women age 15-19 and to abortion among women age 15-49 in Cambodia, based on two Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in 2010 and 2014. In 2014, approximately one in every eight young Cambodian women age 15-19 either already had a live birth or were currently pregnant with their first child. Teenage fertility increased from 8% in 2010 to 12% in 2014. In general, teenage fertility in Cambodia rises with increasing age, lower household wealth, and lower levels of education. 

The purpose of this information note is to support civil society and community groups to design and include community systems strengthening interventions and community-based monitoring activities in funding requests during the 2017-2019 Global Fund funding cycle. This information will be of interest to community groups, key population networks, country coordination mechanism (CCM) members, ministries of health, disease program managers, and health service providers.