Myanmar Behavioral Surveillance Survey 2008: Injecting Drug Users and Female Sex Workers

To monitor the trajectory of the HIV epidemic among higher risk groups, the National AIDS Programme (NAP) has a two-prong surveillance system which consists of HIV sentinel serosurveillance and behavioural surveillance surveys (BSS). Both are critical components for assessing and evaluating the overall impact of the national response to HIV and AIDS. The previous round of BSS, in 2003, were conducted among the general population. Between late 2007 and the first quarter of 2008, BSS was conducted in female sex workers (FSW) and injection drug users (IDU), for the first time by the NAP.