Country Progress Report - Papua New Guinea: Global AIDS Monitoring 2018

At the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS that took place in June in New York, Member States adopted a new Political Declaration which contained new targets to effectively respond to the AIDS epidemic. The 2011 Political Declaration mandates UNAIDS to support countries in reporting back on progress made towards achieving the new commitments. It also provides for the UN Secretary-General to report regularly to the General Assembly on progress achieved in realizing these commitments.

The epidemic in Papua New Guinea can be best described as a mixed epidemic, with sexual transmission as the primary mode of transmission. In Papua New Guinea the current national prevalence of HIV in 2017 was estimated at 0.9 percent with approximately 48,000 people currently living with HIV.