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Socio-Economic Policy Brief

Source: www.unescap.org
Topic: Economic Policy

Sort Desciption: This issue of the Socio-Economic Policy Brief has been prepared with substantive contribution. from Ms. Cai Cai formerly of Health and Development Section ...

Content Inside: Socio-Economic Policy Brief June 2006 Issue No. 5 TURNING THE TIDE AGAINST HIV/AIDS: TARGETING YOUTH The figure for the ESCAP region was obtained by adding the number of people living with HIV and AIDS in East Asia South-East Asia South Asia Oceania Central Asia and the Russian Federation (UNAIDS 2005a). 1 An estimated 9 million people are living with HIV in the ESCAP region. While 1 million people in the region were newly infected in 2005 half a million lives were lost due to AIDS in the same year. Young people are the hardest hit half of all new infections have occurred among youth. In Viet Nam 63 per cent of the people infected by HIV are under the age of 30. In Thailand 50 to 60 per cent of new infections each year are among people under 24 years of age. While young people in general are vulnerable to HIV infection the most at risk are those engaged in com- mercial sex and those injecting illicit drugs the main drivers of the HIV pandemic in the region. There is a high prevalence of HIV among brothel-based sex workers. In Cambodia HIV among brothel-based sex workers accounted for 21 per cent of the total in 2003. In Viet Nam the average prevalence of HIV among sex workers is about 16 per cent; in Mumbai India it remains above 50 per cent among female sex workers. Data from a number of Asian countries reveal that 32 to 74 per cent of female sex work- ers are below 25 years of age (figure 1). Young men who have sex with other men (MSM) are also at a high risk of HIV infec- tion. In Bangkok studies carried out in 2003 and 2005 found that the HIV infec- tion rate among this group had increased from 17 to 27 per cent. Among transgen- der sex workers in Jakarta HIV preva- lence increased from 6 to 22 per cent in 2002. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 1 a Source: National behaviour surveillance data. Data refer to 2003 or latest available yea ...

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