The National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2006-2010 is the first national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic to use participation of all sectors, including Government departments, UN agencies, international NGOs and churches.

The Plan focuses on the control and prevention of HIV, mobilizing resources, providing care and support for AIDS patients, and expanding peer education-based behaviour change programmes.

The Plan identifies and prioritizes HIV interventions for the groups at highest risk of HIV infection: sex workers, clients of sex workers, drug users, men who have sex with men, and partners of people living with HIV.

Mobile populations are also considered a group vulnerable to HIV infection. To reduce HIV-related risk, vulnerability and impact among migrant and mobile populations, the Plan aims to reach 110,000 people on the move from April 2007-March 2008, and 121,000 from April 2008-March 2009 with a programme package of HIV prevention.

Data and mapping mechanisms on HIV and mobility will be developed to reach priority areas and populations and to implement HIV prevention interventions among them.

Treatment, care and support services for returning migrants, including displaced populations inside Myanmar, are lacking.

Overall, the HIV national response faces various challenges. The country is reliant on international financial support from a limited number of international donors, so the success of the national response will depend on making the new Three Diseases Fund successful.

Treatment, care and support services and ART coverage for at-risk groups need to be scaled up.