Multi-country Western Pacific Programme
The Multi-Country Western Pacific Programme (MWP) is a multi-year, regional grant supported through the Global Fund that encompasses both a HIV/TB programme and a malaria programme.
The HIV/TB programme aims to improve the coverage and quality of HIV/TB prevention, treatment and care in 11 participating Western Pacific countries (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu). This includes: prevention programmes for key populations; prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; prevention, treatment and care services for HIV, STI and TB; addressing TB/HIV coinfection and multi-drug resistant TB; removing legal barriers to access; and community systems strengthening.
Key results - TB
Case notification rate of 108 per 100,000 pop. for all forms of TB in 2017 (target 107)
Source: UNDP
84% treatment success rate in 2016
Source: UNDP
TB results by country
Key results - HIV
HIV prevalence and treatment rates
Source: UNDP
* Federated States of Micronesia
* UNDP's Multi-country Western Pacific Programme
83% of pregnant women knew their HIV status in 2017
Source: UNDP
75% of people living with HIV on ART in 2017 (target 68%)
Source: UNDP
Stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV
One of the most notable findings was the high levels of internal stigma that participants reported. Over 70 per cent of respondents reported feeling ashamed, guilty, blamed themselves or had low self-esteem in the previous 12 months and 22 per cent had felt suicidal. To address this, the study recommends providing wellness and psychosocial support to people living with HIV and their affected spouses, partners, families and children.
Visit the following page for the full report and recommendations
Key results - Malaria
147,000 insecticide treated bed nets distributed
Source: UNDP
27.5 mortality rate for children under 5 (per 1,000 live births) in 2015
Source: World Health Organization
Reported confirmed cases of Malaria
Source: World Health Organization
Sikirine
A short film about the Malaria programme in Vanuatu. The action takes place in Torba Province during the life saving mosquito nets distribution campaign of Nov. 2016 and follows a group of health care workers of the Vanuatu Ministry of Health.
Programme Sub-recipients
Stories
Tackling TB in Tuvalu
With the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on TB on the horizon, patients and healthcare workers from Tuvalu, a remote Pacific island, explain how diagnosis and treatment is being scaled-up across the Pacific and reaching directly into people’s homes and communities.
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