- Author
- WHO - World Health Organization
- Title
- HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region
- Imprint
- WHO - World Health Organization, 2001, 100 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 929061 158 8
- Description
Joint publication from WHO Regional Office for Sout-East Asia (New Delhi, India) & WHO Regional Office for the Wetern Pacific (Manila, Philippines). Reproduced with WHO's kind permission.
- Abstract
"The Asia Pacific region is vast and diverse. In addition to countries with varied epidemiological patterns of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), high versus low HIV prevalence countries and different predominant HIV risk behaviour(s) countries in the region also have extremely diverse capabilities to develop and support public health prevention
and control programmes. In reviewing the current epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Asia, this diversity needs to be fully appreciated. Understanding of the many diverse HIV epidemics and their determinants in the Asia-Pacific Region has improved substantially over the past 3-5 years, as a number of countries have implemented comprehensive surveillance systems for HIV prevalence, as well as sexual and injecting risk behaviours. As of 2001, HIV prevalence in most Asia Pacific countries remains low, but there are major public health concerns regarding the future growth potential of HIV/AIDS in the region. This vast region, with a population of nearly 3.5 billion
in the most sexually active age group (15-49 years) , representing nearly 60% of the world’s population has the potential, because of its sheer size, to significantly influence the course and overall impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report presents an overview of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and a more detailed description of the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region. "
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Countries
- Australia, Commonwealth of Australia
- Bangladesh, People's Republic of Bangladesh
- Bhutan, Kingdom of Bhutan
- Brunei, Negara Brunei Darussalam
- Cambodia, Kingdom of Cambodia
- China, People's Republic of China (PRC)
- Hong Kong, Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China
- India, Republic of India
- Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia
- Japan
- Korea, DPR, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Korea, Rep., Republic of Korea
- Laos, Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Macao, Macao Special Administrative Region (China)
- Malaysia
- Maldives, Republic of Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal, Kingdom of Nepal
- New Zealand
- Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea
- Philippines, Republic of the Philippines
- Singapore, Republic of Singapore
- Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand
- Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Inter-Governmental Organisations
- Regional Office for South-East Asia, World Health Organization (1948 - )
- Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organization (1948 - )
- World Health Organization, United Nations (1948 - )
Regions
Topics
- Behavioural surveillance
- Determinants of the epidemic
- Epidemiological surveillance
- HIV/AIDS
- Prevention
Related Published Resources
isRelated
- WHO - World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region 2003, World Health Organization, 2004, 120 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/11ED3283-9821-43BE-9B73-B3444A3DADE6/0 /HIV_AIDS_Asia_Pacific_Region2003.pdf) [ Details... ]