STI/HIV Status and Trends of STI, HIV and AIDS at the End of the Millennium: Western Pacific Region, 1999

This report presents the status and trends of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), HIV and AIDS in the Western Pacific region based on the cumulative number of cases of HIV diagnoses in all countries of the region. Analysis of the trend of the relative proportion in HIV risk exposure suggests that there have been three waves - first, sexual contact among men; second, widespread sharing of equipment among injecting drug users; and finally, the steady increase in the proportion of reported cases with heterosexual contact.