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|National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework II |
|2010-2014 |

National AIDS Commission Republic of Liberia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword iv

Preface v

Acknowledgements vi

Abbreviations Used vii

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.

1. INTRODUCTION 9.

1.1 Background 9.

1.2 Demographic and health profile 9.

2. HIV/AIDS IN LIBERIA 12.

2.1 The Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS In Liberia 12.

2.2 Potential drivers of the HIV epidemic 14.

2.2.1 The impact of war and extreme poverty 14. 2.2.2 Collapse of the public health-care system 15. 2.2.3 Violence and sexual and gender-based violence 16.

2.3 Key populations at risk (or vulnerable) and affected by HIV/AIDS 18.

2.3.1 (Young) women and girls 18.

2.3.2 Women and girls involved in transactional sex or sex work

– victims of human trafficking 21.

2.3.3 (Young) men and clients of sex workers – including mobile men 22. 2.3.4 Men who have sex with men (MSM) 23. 2.3.5 Infants born to HIV-infected mothers 24. 2.3.6 People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) 25. 2.3.7 Orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) 26.

3. LIBERIA’S NATIONAL HIV/AIDS RESPONSE TO DATE 27.

3.1 Management, coordination and financing 27.

3.1.1 National management and coordination structures