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Leaving no-one behind Marginalized populations at risk for HIV and living with... Tender

WHO has floated a tender for Leaving no-one behind Marginalized populations at risk for HIV and living with HIV and co-infections. The project location is Malaysia and the tender is closing on 30 Apr 2019. The tender notice number is APW, while the TOT Ref Number is 32367804. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

Procurement Summary

Country : Malaysia

Summary : Leaving no-one behind Marginalized populations at risk for HIV and living with HIV and co-infections

Deadline : 30 Apr 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32367804

Document Ref. No. : APW

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : WHO
4th Floor, Prima Avenue 8, Block 3508, Jalan Teknokrat 6, Cyberjaya, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia Email: wproungm@who.int
First name: Peter
Surname: Ellison
Telephone country code: Philippines (+63)
Telephone number: 5289653
Telephone extension: 89653
Fax country code: Philippines (+63)
Fax number: 525 2512
Malaysia
Email :wproungm@who.int

Tender Details

Tender are invited for Leaving no-one behind Marginalized populations at risk for HIV and living with HIV and co-infections

Deadline : 30-Apr-2019 23:59 (GMT 8.00)

Published : 17-Apr-2019

Type of Notice : Request for EOI

Beneficiary Country/Territory : Malaysia

Reference : APW

Description : Background

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. The Malaysian health system has made significant strides in improving health outcomes, notably the reduction of child and maternal mortality as well as communicable diseases at large. At the same time, HIV and AIDS continue to rank as second highest causes of communicable diseases mortality following tuberculosis.

Sexual health needs including sexuality are not sufficiently addressed in particular among young people. Same sex behaviors are criminalized and therefore individuals do not come forward to seek sexual health related services and HIV/STI prevention. In addition the increasing trend in the use of stimulant drugs will have implications both for the transmission of HIV and other STI.

Modelled estimates indicate that the sustained efforts made by government and NGO stakeholders have significantly reduced the rate of HIV infections from some 20, 000 infections in 1991 to an estimated 5, 700 annual infections in 2016. In 2018, there were about 87, 122 people living with HIV. The impact of the harm reduction programme is remarkable, with HIV infection rates having fallen dramatically from 66% in 2005 to 13.8% in 2017 among people who inject drugs. The epidemic has transitioned from transmission through injecting behaviors as the primary mode of transmission to sexual transmission. Yet, injecting drug use is still a concern, with the number of people who inje...