UNAIDS Asia-Pacific 
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 of its kind regional chemsex toolkit. Developed by the Australian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM), the toolkit is geared toward clinical service providers in Asia and the Pacific working with men who have sex with men and transgender women.
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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 for the UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) and HIV Estimates Workshop. Running from November 4th to 8th, this regional workshop is supported by the Indo-Pacific HIV Partnership and the Australian Government. It aims to enhance national capacities in HIV data collection, analysis, and reporting, a crucial step in strengthening the Pacific’s health security in the face of Fiji’s rising HIV epidemic.
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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 of all communities, are essential for ending AIDS, for ensuring sustainable development and for human security.
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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 in his blood. Since his viral load was undetectable, he wrote, he was going to stop using condoms.
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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 learning exchanges between countries at different stages of implementation. The resulting strategy can improve HIV response results by sustainably addressing stigma, poor services standards and rights violations in healthcare settings.
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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 17 to 20 in Bangkok, Thailand, community and government partners, together with UN and development partners from each country traded notes on their work to tackle prejudice and rights violations in healthcare, community, education, employment, justice and emergency settings. The teams made several country-specific commitments, including using evidence-based approaches to ensure their stigma and discrimination reduction work is better coordinated, mapped, evaluated and publicized.
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UNAIDS mourns the passing of Bill Whittaker, a stalwart of the Australian AIDS response and a global HIV advocate.
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Access the presentation and video delivered by Eamonn Murphy, Regional Director of UNAIDS Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe Central Asia at the regional launch of the report, The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads.
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