Countries in the WHO Western Pacific Region have made considerable progress in preventing and controlling the HIV epidemic.
Countries in the WHO Western Pacific Region have made considerable progress in preventing and controlling the HIV epidemic. Governments have scaled up access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy, and new HIV infections in the Region have decreased by 20% between 2000 and 2015. Despite this progress, many challenges remain on the path to ending the HIV epidemic. Only an estimated 47% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Region had access to antiretroviral therapy at the end of 2015. The number of new HIV infections remained unchanged since 2008 and even increased markedly among men who have sex with men (MSM), while it remained high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the absence of harm reduction programmes.
