These are figures from the UNAIDS Global Report that was released in Geneva on Tuesday.
However, new HIV infections in the region declined from 4700 [3800–5600] in 2001 to 4500 [3400–6000] in 2009.
Papua New Guinea has the region’s highest largest HIV epidemic with a prevalence of 0.9% [0.8%–1%] and a recent analysis indicates the HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea is beginning to level off.
HIV epidemics in the region are largely driven by sexual transmission, unprotected intercourse between men and women is the main mode of HIV transmission in Papua New Guinea.
Unprotected sex between men in the dominant mode of transmission in the epidemics of Australia, New Zealand and smaller Pacific countries.
While injecting drug use is a minor factor overall in the epidemics of Oceania, it features prominently in some settings. Over the past five years, for example, an estimated 22% of HIV infections among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were attributed to injecting drug use.
In French Polynesia and Melanesia (excluding Papua New Guinea), people who inject drugs account for 12% and 6%, respectively, of cumulative HIV case reports.
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