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 Youth LEAD, KHANA Cambodia and UNAIDS, with support from Cambodia’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHAD). The initiative is part of a regional healthcare worker sensitization programme supported by the Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).  

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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 hosted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Bangkok, Thailand from January 30th to February 3rd. Country teams worked with facilitators over five days to apply improved models to HIV data in order to better understand their national epidemics and responses.

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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 started offering antiretroviral treatment.

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This isn’t your mother’s clinic.

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U=U—undetectable = untransmittable—is a powerful public health intervention. It means that people living with HIV (PLHIV) who achieve an undetectable viral load through consistent treatment and monitoring are not only healthy, but unable to pass on the virus.

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BANGKOK, 11 December 2022—The 51st meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) will be held from December 13 – 16 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The meeting is hosted by the Government of Thailand as Chair of the 2022 PCB. It is the first time in 14 years that the board will meet outside Geneva, Switzerland and the second time it will be in Chiang Mai.  

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BANGKOK, 1 December 2022—The 2022 UNAIDS World AIDS Day report reveals that inequalities are obstructing the end of AIDS. On current trends the world will not meet agreed global HIV targets. However, urgent action to tackle inequalities can get the AIDS response on track.

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This report, which marks World AIDS Day 2022, unpacks the impact that gender inequalities, inequalities faced by key populations, and inequalities between children and adults have had on the AIDS response. It is not inevitable, however, that these inequalities will slow progress towards ending AIDS. We know what works—with courage and cooperation, political leaders can tackle them. Read press release

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