UNAIDS Asia-Pacific

From the very beginning, communities were in the vanguard of the AIDS response in Nepal. Still playing a vital role in the response to HIV in the country, communities are making...

Message from Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific In a world with advancing biomedical technology for preventing, testing and treating HIV, it is shocking that AIDS is...

Message from Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific 17 May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. This year’s theme is Breaking the Silence. Lesbian,...

Relief work is not the Humsafar Trust’s specialty, but COVID-19 has changed that. A few days after the lockdown measures in India went into effect, the Humsafar Trust’s teams received desperate...

Shahnaz Khatun (not her real name), a former sex worker now running a small clothing business in Dhaka, Bangladesh, found herself in difficulties when the country went into lockdown. Before the...

Introduction COVID-19 is a serious pandemic, unprecedented in our lifetime. On 13 April 2020, Inti Muda and UNAIDS conducted a survey to assess the needs of young key populations (YKP) and...

For the more than 3000 people, including 330 children and adolescents, living with HIV and on antiretroviral therapy in Goa, India, the COVID-19 outbreak is a time of worry—they are worried...

Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015 and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific, has stepped up to support the COVID-19 response in the Philippines and the rest of the region....