Success of tuberculosis and HIV collaboration.

aWorld Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Amaya Maw-Naing (e-mail: [email protected]) Almost 30 years since it was first reported in 1983, the HIV epidemic remains a serious public health issue globally, and particularly in countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR). The overwhelming global efforts to combat HIV/AIDS over the past 10 years have led to fewer HIV epidemics. New infections have declined by over 25% in 29 countries worldwide, including four of the five high HIV burden countries in SEAR (India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand but not Indonesia) since the epidemic peaked in 2001.1