HIV and men who have sex with men

December 2012

RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTS

Geographical distribution, coverage, and quantity of targeted interventions to key affected populations (KAPs), including men who have sex with men (MSM), increased between 2008-10.16 Nearly 11 percent of all targeted interventions overseen by the National AIDS Control Organisation are targeted to MSM.2

MSM and other most at risk populations are consistently involved in technical working groups related to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.17

Since 2008, MSM and hijra have been included in comprehensive and methodologically sound Integrated Biological and Behavioural Surveillance (IBBS).18

In 2009, the Delhi High Court decriminalized consensual sex between adult men after a case brought by the Naz Foundation (India) Trust. The ruling was grounded on the acknowledgement that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code obstructed effective HIV prevention.19

India is one of the recipient countries of the approved South Asia Multi-country Global Fund Round 9 Programme as well as India’s national Round 9 Proposal which includes MSM programmes.19

Achievements during NACP-III (2007-12) in relation to MSM and hijra include: seventy-fold increase in HIV prevention services coverage; the initiation of 150 surveillance sites for MSM/hijra; a ‘targeted intervention’ presence across nearly all Indian states.

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