Central Asia Regional Office

HIV/AIDS in Kazachstan

• 0.1% Estimated Prevalence
  (Age 15–49) (2009)
• <500 Estimated Deaths (2009)
• 1,035 Reported Number of People Receiving ART (January 2010)
• 3,800 Estimated Number of People Needing ART

HIV/AIDS in Kyrgyzstan

• 0.3% Estimated Prevalence
  (Age 15–49) (2009)
• <500 Estimated Deaths (2009)
• 231 Reported Number of People Receiving ART (January 2010)
• 1,900 Estimated Number of People Needing ART

HIV/AIDS in Uzbekistan

• 0.1% Estimated Prevalence
  (Age 15–49) (2009)
• <500 Estimated Deaths (2009)
• 1,753 Reported Number of People Receiving ART
• N/A Estimated Number of People Needing ART

HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan

• 0.2% Estimated Prevalence
  (Age 15–49) (2009)
• <500 Estimated Deaths (2009)
• 322 Reported Number of People Receiving ART
• 3000 Estimated Number of People Needing ART

HIV/AIDS in Turkmenistan

• N/A Estimated Prevalence
  (Age 15–49) (2009)
• N/A Estimated Deaths (2009)
• N/A Reported Number of People Receiving ART
• N/A Estimated Number of People Needing ART
  
  

  SOURCE:
  UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, November 2010

HIV/AIDS Assets and Strategic Focus

CDC brings to bear its technical expertise and direct partnerships with Ministries of Health (MoH) to support PEPFAR’s legislative mandates in: (1) Prevention, including a renewed emphasis on prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission; (2) Improved diagnostic laboratory capabilities across HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria; (3) Supporting the goal of training and retaining 140,000 health care workers; and (4) Health systems strengthening in consultation with the World Health Organization. A Total of ten full time staff and one part time staff member support the regional office with nine of them being locally employed staff who receive daily on-the-job training and mentoring.

Strategic Focus
CDC’s CAR office works to strengthen public health systems in the region by focusing on strategic information, blood safety, injection safety, laboratory services, and prevention for at-risk and vulnerable populations for HIV/AIDS treatment and care services.

Prevention for at-risk and Vulnerable Populations for HIV/AIDS
Build capacity of prevention specialists through training and on-the-job mentoring; Implement evidence-based pilot programs to illustrate and test prevention programs; Adopt new modes of service delivery; and Expand prevention and related services for at-risk populations.

Treatment & Care Services
Build capacity of clinicians through training and on-the-job mentoring; Strengthen HIV and opportunistic infection treatment and care services; Develop clinical guidelines for screening and managing HIV infection; and Enhance screening for and diagnosis of HIV infection and co-infection.

Strategic Information
CDC provides technical assistance to MoH and key stakeholders in areas vital to the prevention, control, and monitoring of HIV infection to: build in country capacity of epidemiologists through training and on-the-job mentoring; improve surveillance systems, including sentinel surveillance; implement data triangulation; develop an electronic surveillance HIV case management system; improve monitoring and evaluation systems; and assist in data analysis and use for decision making.

Strengthening Laboratory and Health Systems
CDC builds in-country capacity for high-quality laboratory specialists, blood transfusion specialists, and epidemiologists through training and on-the job-mentoring; assisting with the rapid expansion of HIV diagnosis, treatment, and care; creating reference laboratories; developing national strategic laboratory plans; implementing quality management systems; participating in or conducting national external quality assessment and proficiency testing; implementing quality assurance and control programs; and supporting laboratory accreditation activities.