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| HIV/AIDS in Asia -- 2008 | |
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Adults and children living with HIV | 4.7 million |
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Adult and child deaths from AIDS | 329,000 |
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Adults and children newly infected with HIV | 355,000 |
Statistics from UNAIDS. For full report, click here. (PDF)
Regional Overview
- Meeting Addresses How to Improve HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Asia (March 3, 2010)
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - HIV/AIDS Funding, Treatment Standards, Empowering Women Addressed at ICAAP (August 13, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Highlights From the 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (August 12, 2009)
Global Fund director says G20 can become donor nations; UNAIDS director outlines ways to reduce spread of HIV in Asia; Jakarta Post examines efforts to educate, protect women from spread of HIV in Papua; IPS examines "scant presence of mainstream media" at Asia's largest HIV/AIDS meeting.
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Experts Gather in Bali to Address HIV/AIDS in Asia, the Pacific (August 10, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - HIV/AIDS Cases in Asia Could Reach 10 Million by 2010, Officials Say (December 1, 2008)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Asia: Preventing AIDS Through Animation (January 3, 2008)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Epidemiological Fact Sheets by Country (2008)
Each fact sheet provides the most recent country-specific data on HIV/AIDS and STI prevalence and incidence, a short assessment of the country's epidemiological situation, and information on knowledge and behaviors that can spur or stem the transmission of HIV.
From UNAIDS, UNICEF and World Health Organization - 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update (Asia) (PDF) (December 2007)
A brief overview of the effects of HIV/AIDS in Asia.
From UNAIDS - Fact Sheet: AIDS Epidemic in Asia (PDF) (December 2006)
A brief overview of the effects of HIV/AIDS in Asia.
From UNAIDS - Overlapping Epidemics: Tuberculosis, HIV and Viral Hepatitis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (April 2006)
To read PDF, click here.
In TAGline, from Treatment Action Group - Agreement Reached to Provide OraQuick Rapid HIV Test in Asia (December 1, 2005)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Africa: Children's Access to Prophylaxis May Improve After Medical Study, New WHO Recommendations (December 31, 2004)
WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF recommend the cheap antibiotic co-trimoxazole for all children with HIV symptoms in poor countries, but activists say the move may be too little, too late.
In AIDS Treatment News, from AIDS Treatment News - CDC Director Discusses HIV Care Priorities in Developing World (October 2004)
By Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In PLoS Medicine - UN Official Warns Asia Could Face World's Worst AIDS Crisis (October 7, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mongolia
- Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Mongolia) (PDF) (2008)
From UNAIDS, UNICEF and World Health Organization