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Amnesty International has prepared this report with the aim of supporting the work of Cambodian women's rights organizations, service providers and others working to protect and defend women and girls who are subjected to rape and other sexual violence. The report is part of Amnesty International's global campaign “Stop Violence Against Women”. It is based on research trips to Cambodia in April and November-December 2009, and draws on interviews in Battambang, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Kampong Thom with some 30 female victims of rape from across ten provinces, and around a dozen of their family members. The violations described in the report took place between early 2006 and December 2009.

This paper is designed to call more attention to young people within the groups considered "most at risk" for HIV—those who sell sex, those who inject drugs, and young men who have sex with men. Despite the growing attention that has been given to programming for these groups, little explicit focus has emerged on the particular needs of young people in these populations. At the same time, efforts to prevent HIV among young people have tended to focus on the general population of young people, for whom more is known about effective programming. Research has begun to show the importance of focusing on young people within most-at-risk populations, and there are increasing examples of programmatic approaches for meeting their needs.

With this 2008-2009 UNGASS report, Viet Nam’s fourth (following reports in 2002-2003, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007), Viet Nam continues to demonstrate its strong commitment to the UNGASS reporting process and to its national response to HIV. Viet Nam considers this fourth report particularly important because it is being completed in 2010, the target year for the 2006 Political Declaration on Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support, of which Viet Nam is also a signatory. This report presents and reflects on both Viet Nam’s achievements as well as on its challenges in responding to HIV, during the 2008-2009 reporting period.

This report will provide a deeper understanding of opportunities, gaps and challenges related to the HIV/AIDS response in Timor-Leste at a national, global and regional level. It will also offer guidance to future HIV programming and initiatives. With the support of all HIV stakeholders, HIV programming in 2010 will see an increase in coverage and implementation of the national response as well as the strengthening of systems necessary to carry out the required services to respond to the HIV situation in Timor-Leste.

Preparation of this progress report was accomplished by the efforts of the Working Group, comprised of representatives from the government, NGOs, civil society, technical experts and international organizations who collaborated together to produce a comprehensive summary of progress. It is hoped that this reporting process will serve as one tool to advance the AIDS program to reach its targets for access to prevention, care and treatment, universally and equally, and in accordance with the NAP for the prevention and control of AIDS for the period 2007-2011.

The Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) convened the UNGASS core team in September 2009 with support from UNAIDS. Members of the core team were the Department of Health-National Epidemiology Center (NEC), National AIDS and STD Prevention and Control Program (NASPCP) and the PNAC Secretariat; National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA); Health Action Information Network (HAIN); Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health and Welfare (PNGOC); UNAIDS; UNFPA; and, WHO. UNAIDS oriented the core team on the reporting format and the differences between of the 2010 from the 2008 UNGASS report. A work plan for the succeeding months and modalities for data collection was prepared. Workshops for the National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) and National Composite Policy Index (NCPI) were also scheduled. Lessons learned from the development of the 2008 UNGASS report informed the planning process for the development of the UNGASS report.

Pakistan pledged its commitment to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic by adopting the Declaration of Commitment (DoC) at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in June 2001. The DoC reflects global consensus on a comprehensive framework to achieve the 6th Millennium Development Goal of ‘halting and beginning to reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015’.

The preparation of the UNGASS country report was widely participated in by a range of sectors like civil society organisations including PLHIV, government agencies; experts group (e.g. SI-TWG); external development partners and other stakeholders. A steering committee led by the National Planning Commission provided the guidance and oversight during the report preparation process. A desk review of a number of documents, studies (e.g. IBBS), and reports was carried out to extract necessary data and information. The UNGASS Nepal Country Progress Report Nepal 2010 covers the period 2008 -2009.

This country report presents information specifically focused on achievements or the Government and civil society including people living with and affected by AIDS in Indonesia related to the Declaration of Commitment of UNGASS. The report covers work in the past two years, 2008-2009 and is a collaborative product reflecting the perspectives of partners in its preparation.

For gender comparison, of the stigma index data, the MPG numerators divided their sample allocation evenly by gender of respondents currently living with HIV. The final sample for tabulations is divided with fifty‐one percent female respondents and forty‐nine percent male respondents, respectively 166 and 158 persons that make the sample size amount to a total of 324 respondents. For the purpose of this HIV stigma index, all respondents have a status of HIV positive.