Presentations

This is a presentation about the United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS and sets world on the Fast-Track to end the epidemic by 2030.

The WHO Global Ministerial Conference “Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response” aims to accelerate country implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy in order to reach the End TB targets set by the World Health Assembly and the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Ministerial Conference will inform the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on TB in 2018.

Hepatitis A is a notifiable disease under the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap 599) of the Hong Kong laws. An unusual increase in the number of hepatitis A among attendees of Integrated Treatment Centre (ITC) of Department of Health (DH), who were HIV positive men who have sex with men (MSM), were recorded by CHP recently. Retrospective analysis of laboratory information revealed that the virus from most of the cases reported since September 2015 were shown to be identical to either one of two genetically distinguishable groups within genotype 1A (4 and 8 cases, 1 case pending). Investigation is ongoing to study if the outbreak has spread to other MSM in the community.

The presentation shows Situation of the HIV Epidemic in Cambodia, sex behavioral, HIV and STI trends among brothel-based sex workers, Key Lessons Learned from Cambodia 1.0: How Cambodia stabilized HIV epidemic, major challenges and more.

By Ioannis Hodges-Mameletzis World Health Organization HIV Department Geneva, Switzerland

-Commitments on ending AIDS and Fast-Track targets  -Regional overview -Public health model of HIV  -How HIV response model can benefit other communicable diseases

From barriers to bridges: Increasing access to HIV and other health services for trans people in Asia 20 September 2017 Bangkok, Thailand

Maternal Mortality Ratio decreased from 539/100,000 live births in 1996 (NHFS) to 258 in 2015 (WHO). Inadequate attention in improving maternal and newborn health services in remote or mountainous areas of Nepal. Both demand-side and supply-side combined package of intervention has greatest improvement in use of maternal and new born health services in remote areas.

The objectives are to determine national prevalence estimates and related risk behaviors for HIV and syphilis among EW, to provide data for program planning and management of STI and HIV prevention programs for EW and their clients and to evaluate HIV/syphilis prevalence and behaviors among EW.

The objectives are to estimate the prevalence of HIV and syphilis among PWID and PWUD and HCV among PWID, to examine HIV risk behaviors among PWID and PWUD: illicit drug use behaviors, substance abuse, and other health issues including healthcare seeking behaviors and exposure to HIV programs and to estimate the national population size of PWID and PWUD by types of drug used.