An estimated 6 million people are living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific and only 33 percent are receiving treatment, often due to legal and policy barriers in accessing HIV services.
Against this backdrop, 30 countries from the region pledged last week to accelerate the pace of change and committed to ending the AIDS epidemic in the region by 2030 during the Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Meeting on HIV and AIDS.
Organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in cooperation with the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the January 28-30 meeting in Bangkok reviewed progress towards implementing transformative reforms on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support agreed to by national governments in 2012.
