UNAIDS Asia-Pacific

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...

Partners explore more effective responses to sexualized drug-use at Asia Pacific Chemsex Symposium BANGKOK, November 8, 2024—UNAIDS and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have launched a first...

NADI, 5 November 2024—Representatives from ten Pacific Island nations, including Fiji, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and Kiribati, convened in Nadi...

The World AIDS Day 2024 theme is “take the rights path“. The path that ends AIDS is a rights path. Upholding the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, and fostering inclusion...

In 2020, a gay Thai man living with HIV sparked controversy with a Facebook post. He was on antiretroviral therapy and had gotten lab tests to check the level of virus...

BANGKOK, 23 September, 2024—Seventeen countries from the Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe Central Asia regions collaborated on a strategy to strengthen Community-led Monitoring (CLM) over the next year. The meeting facilitated...

Teams from Botswana, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Mozambique, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia have shared pathways to lowering HIV-related stigma and discrimination as part of a novel learning exchange. From September...