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Development
of the Regional Strategy for Harm Reduction in Asia and the Pacific
2010-2015-Confronting HIV among people who Inject Drugs
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 Bi-regional meeting was organized at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 7 to 9 December
2009, to review progress of the existing “Bi-regional Strategy for Harm
Reduction 2005-2009 - HIV and Injecting Drug Use”, and examine and comment
on a new regional harm reduction strategy for 2010-2015. More Info…
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Workshop on
Opioid Dependence, HIV/AIDS and TB: a coordinated approach
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 Workshop on Opioid
Dependence, HIV/AIDS and TB was conducted at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
from 9 to 12 December 2009. The objectives of workshop were to explore what
models of response were practiced in different countries in the region;
sharing information on the effective responses to opioid
dependence, TB and HIV; and to discuss models of effective coordinated
response to TB, HIV and opioid dependence.
More
Info…
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Inter-country Training on Antiretroviral
Therapy Cohort Analysis for Low HIV Burden SEAR Countries
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|  WHO SEARO organized an Inter-country
Training on Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Analysis for Low HIV Burden SEAR
Countries at WHO/SEARO, New Delhi,
from 24 to 26 November 2009. The
objectives of the training were to strengthen national HIV treatment
monitoring and evaluation systems and in particular to increase national
capacity to conduct cohort-based analyses of treatment outcomes among
persons receiving antiretroviral therapy.
Representatives from the national AIDS programs of Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Maldives, Sri Lanka,
and Timor Leste attended the workshop.
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Regional strategy for the elimination of congenital
syphilis launched
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 The
Regional Strategy for Elimination of Congenital Syphilis (ECS) and the Sri
Lankan Strategy for ECS were launched by the Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition, Sri Lanka
at Colombo in
November 2009.
Regional
strategy for the elimination of congenital syphilis [PDF 1.5 MB]
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WHO
releases Rapid Advice on
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 Antiretroviral
therapy for HIV infection in adults and adolescents, November 2009 [PDF
362 KB]
Use of
antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection
in infants, November 2009 [PDF 356 KB]
Revised
Principles and Recommendations on HIV and infant feeding, November 2009 [PDF
235 KB]
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Toolkit for
monitoring and evaluation of interventions for sex workers
HIV/AIDS in
the 
Regional strategy for the elimination of
congenital syphilis
