As a girl Ikka dreamed of becoming an accountant. She knew her parents could not afford to send her to university, so she resolved to pay for it herself. For almost...
BANGKOK, February 28, 2023—On Zero Discrimination Day, commemorated on March 1, UNAIDS highlights the need to remove laws that criminalise people living with HIV and key populations. (Key populations are communities at higher...
UNAIDS congratulates Australia on newly announced plans to invest AUD 620 million over the next five years for health programmes across the Pacific and south-east Asia. The investment is part of...
For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asia Pacific country teams and development partners met in person in Bangkok, Thailand for the regional UNAIDS HIV estimates workshop....
Forty (40) healthcare workers from the Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Siem Reap and Battambang districts in Cambodia have received training to provide young key population-friendly HIV services. The training was conducted by...
BANGKOK, February 4, 2023—Twenty-two (22) countries in Asia and the Pacific received training and support to generate updated estimates of their HIV burden and antiretroviral treatment coverage. This regional workshop was...
The Sanpatong Hospital in North Thailand has reinvented and refined its HIV programme for more than three decades. It began attending to people living with HIV in 1989, and in 1996...