East and Southeast Asia, Pacific
Regional partners include the IPPF regional office (based in Kuala Lumpur), the UNAIDS Regional Support Teams (based in Bangkok) APN+ (the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV, based in Bangkok) and ICW Asia-Pacific (based in Delhi).
Regional partnerships are being consolidated in East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific to support the future rollout of the index in the region. The international partners worked closely with the IPPF regional office (based in Kuala Lumpur), the UNAIDS Regional Support Teams (based in Bangkok) and APN+ (the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV, based in Bangkok) to plan, implement and support follow-up from the regional training workshops.
The regional training for the People Living with HIV Stigma Index took place in Bangkok (30 March - 2 April 2008) for 19 participants from 9 countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific-Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, The Philippines and Myanmar. The facilitators were from IPPF and APN+. Observers attended the meeting from UNAIDS Cambodia, UNAIDS Thailand and UNAIDS Myanmar, UNAIDS RST, the TSF in Malaysia and from ICW. The workshop was conducted in English with translation into Thai and Burmese.
To date the People Living with HIV Stigma Index has been undertaken in China, Fiji, Thailand, The Philippines.
