South Asia

Regional partners include the IPPF regional office (based in New Delhi), 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 have been consolidated in South Asia to support the rollout of the index in the region. The international partners worked closely with the IPPF regional office (based in New Delhi), the UNAIDS Regional Support Teams (based in Bangkok) and APN+ (the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV) 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 Kathmandu (2-4 March 2008) for 11 participants from 5 countries in South Asia-Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The facilitators were from IPPF, ICW and University of the Western Cape South Africa. Observers attended the meeting from UNAIDS Nepal, UNAIDS Pakistan, UNAIDS Regional Support Team and from the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN). The workshop was conducted in English with translation into Singhalese.

To date the People Living with HIV Stigma Index has been rolled out in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.