Country Progress Report - Solomon Islands: 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 first HIV case in the Solomon Islands was in 1994. Since then, SI has had low HIV incidence each year. UNAIDS classified Solomon Islands as a low HIV prevalence country with an estimated prevalence of 0.002% that remained unchanged since 2010 (UNAIDS 2012). Despite the low incidence of HIV, data consistently show a high number of people infected with STIs across the country.