"Getting to Zero - Zero New HIV Infections. Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS Related Deaths World AIDS Day 2011 (1 December 2011)

National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC)

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Published Jointly by NCASC and UNAIDS. Contains key advocacy gaps and issues; advocacy plan framework; monitoring and evaluation of the national advocacy plan.

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March 14, 2012

Lack of Awareness, Stigma Fuels Marital Rape in Nepal

As the warm winter sun blankets Kathmandu, people are making the most of it and soaking up its rays. But not Devaki Poudel, 39, who lives across the river from Nepal’s capital in the neighboring district of Lalitpur.

Inside an old, three-story house, Poudel, who requested her first name be changed for safety reasons, has been busy all morning. At 11 a.m., she has finished sending her children to school..  

HIV SITUATION OF NEPAL

HIV Cases as of  15-July-2012

ART as of 15 July 2012

PMTCT  16 Jul 2011-15 Jul 2012

Male

Female

TG

Total

Male

Female

TG

Total

HIV Tested

HIV +ve mothers

ARV for mothers during pregnancy

ARV for mothers during delivery

ARV for Babies

13,157

7,417

9

20,583

3,923

3,200

19

7,142

1,27,163

177

73

117

125