The UNAIDS regional support team for Asia and the Pacific has received several requests for help from non-nationals living with HIV in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka through social media platforms. Many of them are tourists who were unable to return to their countries or students and all were running out of HIV treatment and unable to refill their medicines due to the COVID-19 situation.
The UNAIDS Asia-Pacific office connected these individuals to civil society organizations or local clinics in each of these countries where they were able to access the antiretroviral medicines.
