Laos
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) currently faces a concentrated epidemic with an adult HIV prevalence of 0.1 percent. Since the first case was identified in 1990, the number of infections has continued to grow. In 2005, UNAIDS estimated that 3,700 people in Lao PDR were living with HIV.
USAID provides assistance to the PDR through the Regional Development Mission/Asia (RDMA). The United States has worked with the Lao PDR government since 1998 to monitor the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The funding in recent years has enabled the expansion of USAID activities to include improving market research and strategies for condom sales, implementing prevention and treatment programs for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and conducting surveillance and interventions for populations at risk for HIV infection.
View the USAID HIV/AIDS Health Profile for Laos - March 2008 [PDF,
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