Civil society in Asia Pacific are mobilising early for next year's UNGASS on HIV. There will be some linkages between the recent UNGASS on drugs and this upcoming UNGASS on HIV.
Results from an initial overview of the randomised injectable opioid therapy trial (RIOTT) has shown that clients form a 'hard-to-treat' population responded well and made notable gains in abstaining from street heroin and improvements in health and social functioning.
In Indonesia, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) have for too long stigmatized and discriminated for their illness. The Indonesian National AIDS Commission (KPAN) has to play a more active role in ensuring that not just AIDS is reduced, but beyond that that PLHAs will no longer be stigmatized and discriminated against.