Publications

A country scorecard has been jointly developed by UNAIDS and partners, to document the status of country implementation and presented to the 28th meeting of the UNAIDS Programming Coordinating Board. The scorecard includes a total of 14 strategic markers, which serve as proxies for the strategic areas included in the Agenda for Women and Girls. A traffic light approach was used, with the following colour code: i) red: not available; ii) orange: available on a project-basis; iii) green: present at national level. A detailed description of the indicators can be found in Annex 3. In addition, data has been collected on the country-level partners (Government, civil society, other development partners and United Nations), to foster mutual accountability. The presented data has been collected through the UN Joint teams, in close collaboration with national partners. This report provided a visual of the status of country-level undertakings to date, the partners engaged in the implementation of the UNAIDS Agenda for Women and Girls, as well as the areas in need of additional support.

In Bangladesh the first case of HIV was detected in 1989, and since then a total of 1207 cumulative cases of HIV have been confirmed and reported by the end of December 2007. During the last two decades the number of newly identified cases and those with AIDS have been rising steadily. It is estimated that there are 7,500 people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the country. However, the number of people affected by HIV and AIDS includes not only those infected but also their immediate family members, and others in their social network, and these numbers are not known.

The research study highlights economic vulnerabilities as the primary driver of migration from Bangladesh to Mumbai (India) or Kolkata (India). The journey across the border can be a dangerous one and many migrants face harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination and remain at risk of HIV infection.

The first confirmed case of AIDS was identified in Indonesia 24 years ago (1987). Between 1987 and 1997 infection appeared to increase slowly. The response was modest and focused primarily in the health sector. In 1994 Indonesia’s first National AIDS Commission was appointed by the President (May) and first National Strategy issued shortly thereafter (June).

This mapping exercise was mainly carried out to identify the services delivery gaps of HIV intervention programs currently operating with street based and hotel/residence based female sex workers (FSW) and also to estimate size of the unserved sex workers in street, hotel and residence settings in 29 districts of Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna divisions to scale up the HIV essential services and as part of it locations for setting up of DICs can be determined.

The 2010 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS) is a nationally representative sample survey of 18,754 women and 8,239 men age 15-49. The 2010 CDHS is the third comprehensive survey conducted in Cambodia as part of the worldwide MEASURE DHS project. The primary purpose of the CDHS is to provide policymakers and planners with up-todate, reliable data on fertility; family planning; infant, child, and maternal mortality; maternal and child health; nutrition; malaria; knowledge of HIV/AIDS, and women’s status.

The behavioural surveillance survey (BSS) research conducted by the National Research Institute at Oil Search Limited provides data for the NDoH National Surveillance System for monitoring behavioural trends with more-at-risk populations over time. The research is also conducted for OSL and the NDoH/ADB HIV Prevention in Rural Enclaves Project, to be used as a baseline for the monitoring and evaluation of their HIV project. The BSS research findings are based on a representative sample of 463 OSL workers and can support further tailoring of the OSL HIV prevention response to minimize the impact of the HIV epidemic on their workforce and their surrounding communities.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health and human rights concern. Despite a growing body of research into risk factors for IPV, methodological differences limit the extent to which comparisons can be made between studies. We used data from ten countries included in the WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence to identify factors that are consistently associated with abuse across sites, in order to inform the design of IPV prevention programs. IPV prevention programs should increase focus on transforming gender norms and attitudes, addressing childhood abuse, and reducing harmful drinking. Development initiatives to improve access to education for girls and boys may also have an important role in violence prevention.

This report presents the results of the study entitled Discourses and Representations of HIV in Fiji and their Impact on the Experience of People Living with HIV and AIDS. This study, as originally conceived and described in the research proposal submitted to the Fiji National Health Research Committee, aimed to investigate the discourses and representations of HIV and AIDS in Fiji and how they impact the experience of people living with the virus. This research had three initial objectives: 1) to examine how HIV and AIDS had been presented and represented at the institutional level (government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), churches) since the advent of the first reported cases in 1989; 2) to explore how the population of Fiji perceived and interpreted the infection; 3) to analyse the biographies of people living with HIV and how they experienced the virus in the Fijian context.

The Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) 2011 is conducted as a periodic update of the demographic and health situation in Nepal. This is the fourth comprehensive national level population and health survey conducted in Nepal as part of the global Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program. The primary focus of the 2011 NDHS was to provide estimates of key population and health indicators, including fertility and mortality rates, for the country as a whole and for urban and rural areas separately. In addition, the sample was designed to provide estimates of most key variables for the 13 ecodevelopment regions (stratums).