UNAIDS Asia-Pacific

MANILA, 1 March, 2025. In a powerful demonstration of this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme “We Stand Together,” communities of people living with HIV, persons with disabilities and key populations convened...

Adrian Lindayag, a Philippines actor, learned he was living with HIV in 2017. But even before then, he’d felt the weight of the disease.

BANGKOK, February 28, 2025—Accurate, recent HIV data are especially critical as countries in Asia and the Pacific respond to rising new infections and mobilise funding. Teams from twenty-three Asia Pacific countries...

Urgent action needed to restore essential community-led services BANGKOK, 13 February, 2025—While the United States’ 90-day pause on foreign assistance has impacted the global AIDS response, U.S. Department of State waivers...

Stigma-free HIV prevention, testing and treatment services required for an effective response    SUVA/BANGKOK, 23 January 2025—The Government of Fiji has declared an HIV outbreak in response to a sharp increase...

Asia Pacific seeks to lower HIV-related stigma and rights violations through education about U=U BANGKOK/GENEVA, 27 November 2024— Ahead of World AIDS Day (1 December), UNAIDS urges leaders to protect the...

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...