Country Overview

Since 2009, CDC has collaborated with multilateral, governmental, nongovernmental, and civil society organizations in Laos to discover, evaluate, and implement new tools, programs, and policies to combat HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis (TB). CDC initiatives promote and demonstrate sustainable epidemic-control solutions that have been adopted, integrated and scaled-up into existing health systems by the government and stakeholders in Laos. CDC works with partners in three high burden provinces to: optimize HIV testing and case finding strategies; improve access to viral load testing; implement same-day ART and multi-month dispensing of ART; improve data systems and cascade monitoring; and support TB case finding and TB preventive treatment.