Publications on Key Populations

Periodic global data on HIV and AIDS prevalence, incidence and people living with the disease has reported a decline which is primarily attributable to the reduction in incidence.

The findings in this report are in general very encouraging as it shows that the overall prevalence of HIV in populations most at risk remains below 1% and most importantly, HIV prevalence has declined among people who inject drugs in Dhaka from 7% to 5.3%. Moreover, hepatitis C has also decline which is a marker for unsafe injecting practices

Since 1987, when the first case of HIV was reported, the rapidly increasing number of new HIV infections in Indonesia makes the epidemic one of the fastest growing in Asia.

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

In 2009, the estimated the number of people living with HIV in Pakistan stood at 98,000 [79,000-120,000], of which 28,000 [23,000-35,000] were women.

Since the first case of AIDS was reported in 1988, HIV in Nepal has evolved from a "low" to a "concentrated" epidemic.

The first case of HIV was reported in 1987 in an expatriate, while the first Maldivian national with HIV was reported in 1991.

The reported cumulative number of Koreans testing positive for HIV has more than doubled in the last five years from 2,470 in 2003 to 6,936 in March 2010

Our objective was to examine major donor investments targeted at men who have sex with men and transgender people in 2009, but we also recorded relevant information from other years (2008, 2010, and 2011) when available.

In 2003, the first case of HIV was reported in Timor-Leste (commonly know as East Timor). As of 2009, there were 151 cumulative reported cases of HIV - among whom 71 were female, 80 were male and 14 were children.