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| Asian Economies in Rapid Transition: HIV Now and Through 2031 |
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The vision of aids2031 is rooted in a need to expand the community of stakeholders in AIDS beyond the current historical group of “experts”. The initiative also attempts to generate a perspective on the key drivers of the epidemic in the long term, the strengths and shortcomings of current approaches, and opportunities to influence the funding priorities. aids2031 has convened a series of think-tanks and public debates; prepared 2031 special issues papers through the work of nine working group committees; produced TV broadcasts; and held web-based discussions. |
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The Working Group on Countries in Rapid Transition was formed in May 2008 to further explore the question as to whether countries in Asia undergoing rapid transition have a heightened vulnerability to HIV and what factors must be considered for mounting an effective long-term response. With sustained economic growth over the last three decades, the six countries in rapid transition—China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam, which are the focus countries in this report—stand at the crossroads of being able to design, finance and deliver better social and health care interventions in AIDS response. The sustained growth in their economies could perhaps mitigate the impact of AIDS on vulnerable populations like orphaned women and children. At the same time, there is a chance that they could also lose out in the fight against AIDS to competing priorities like climate change and newly emerging infections like the H1N1 virus. The global economic downturn ephemerally could also have an impact on the response to AIDS in these countries in the short term. Grappling with these questions and sensing the historic opportunities provided under the vision projected by the aids2031 initiative, the Working Group on Countries in Rapid Transition researched and deliberated for nearly 18 months, and their conclusions are presented in this report.
This report underlines the demographic, economic and social transformation taking place in the six countries and makes an attempt to analyze and project how these rapid changes may impact the spread of HIV in years to come and recommends some critical and sustainable long-term measures that will need to be adopted in order to curb the epidemic and its impact in these six countries.
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