UNAIDS Asia-Pacific

This case study is featured in the 2025 Global AIDS Update “We will focus on treatment!”

Chhum Vy, an outreach worker for Men’s Health Cambodia (MHC), lives in Steung Meanchey, a low-income neighborhood in southern Phnom Penh. She has converted her rental house into a makeshift community...

Arun Seang* works six days a week in a garment factory in Phnom Penh. In the past when he needed time off to go to the HIV clinic he came up...

Em Ra disappears into the house twice, slipping past the shrine of flowers and incense by the front door. First, she brings out an old HIV magazine. She flips to a...

A woman living with HIV shows up to her community clinic for antenatal care. The nurses ask why she got pregnant.   A man living with HIV goes to his dental...

“In our country we are not the priority,” Daisy Cruz says plainly.   She is surrounded by other women living with HIV who agree. They share stories that are not often told...

Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines prepare to introduce the DVR When Elena Felix contracted HIV the only prevention tools available were condoms. She didn’t think she needed them...

Life became chaotic for Poon early. (Not his real name.) As a gay teenager he was bullied at school by students and teachers. He moved in with his grandparents when his...