Belize
UNDP, working in partnership with the Global Fund and national partners, has provided HIV counselling and testing encounters for 887,000.
Key results - HIV
With the highest HIV prevalence in Central America, combined with over half of the population being under 25 years of age, Belize faces significant social and economic challenges. Although still fairly modest in size TB/HIV coinfection has increased in the last decade and it remains challenging to support all TB patients to achieve successful treatment.
UNDP assumed the role of PR for Global Fund HIV grants in Belize in 2011, and in 2016 became PR for the joint HIV/TB programme. The HIV grants have combatted key drivers of the disease including poverty, unemployment, chronic malnutrition, and drug abuse, by targeting young people and key populations at higher risk, such as men who have sex with men and female sex workers. The current programme focusses on increasing testing and counselling services among men, in priority districts and amongst priority age groups (19-24 and 40-49 years), improving retention on ART and reducing stigma and discrimination as barriers to prevention and treatment.
101,000 counselling and testing encounters for HIV
Source: UNDP
1,400 people currently on ART (2017)
Source: UNDP
New cases of HIV
Source: UNAIDS
Key results - TB
The TB programme aims to strengthen the overall health system’s capacity to manage TB, TB/HIV, and MDR-TB, with a focus on training key aspects of the health system to play a role in the TB response. UNDP has been confirmed to continue managing the HIV/TB programme until 2021 with the focus of efforts being on strengthening resilient and sustainable systems for health and increasing domestic financing to ensure the gains achieved are sustained.
Case detection rate (2017)
Source: World Health Organization
126 cases of TB treated
Source: UNDP
Treatment success rate for TB (2016)
Source: World Health Organization
HIV-positive TB patients on Antiretroviral Therapy
Source: World Health Organization
Maternal and infant mortality rates
Source: World Health Organization
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