HIV/AIDS in the Region
In the Western Pacific Region, the estimated number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) reached 1.4 million in 2008, up from 1.3 million in 2007 and 870 000 in 2001.
Prevalence remained low at 0.1 percent, and there are signs that the epidemic is stabilizing and prevention efforts are making headway as manifested by a slight drop in new infections to 136 000 in 2008 from 150 000 in 2001.
Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Viet Nam together make up more than 90 percent of the regional HIV burden, based on 2007 country estimates.
Country profiles on HIV/AIDS
Cambodia
China
Fiji
Lao PDR
Malaysia
Mongolia
Papua New Guinea
Philipppines
Vietnam