Prof Nick Crofts - University of Melbourne

IDU and IHIV in AsiaHIV in Asia:• 2008: estimated 4.7 million people with HIV in Asia• 350,000 newly infected in that yearIDU in Asia:• More than half the world’s opiate users are in Asia• Asia is home to approximately 14 to 16 million regulardrug users• at least 6.5 million injecting drug users• 4.5 million are in three countries alone:•China, India and IndonesiaUNAIDS/WHO/UNODC/GFATM/ANPUD, 2010: A strategy to halt and reverse the HIV epidemicamong people who inject drugs in Asia and the Pacific 2010‐2015