Kyrgyzstan

Key Results in 2022-2023

The Government passed laws guaranteeing free healthcare services for all and ensured people living with HIV to legally adopt children and access all available reproductive health services.
Public funding for the HIV response increased, now absorbing 90% of all treatment costs in the country.
US$ 27 million was mobilized from the Global Fund for the HIV and tuberculosis responses during the 2024-2026 grant period

Joint Programme Results

Kyrgyzstan made critical progress in improving the enabling legal environment and increasing public expenditure for scaling up HIV and social services for vulnerable and key populations, with notable support from the Joint Programme. The Government passed a new public health law guaranteeing access to free healthcare services, including opioid agonist therapy (OAT) for all citizens. The new HIV law introduced in 2022 ensures that people living with HIV can legally adopt children and guarantees access to all reproductive methods and technologies available in the country. This law further grants free primary, secondary and higher education to children who acquired HIV through nosocomial transmission in municipal or state healthcare facilities (UNDP).

HIV incidence per 1000 uninfected populations

Source: AIDSinfo

AIDS mortality per 1000 population

Source: AIDSinfo

Progress towards 95-95-95 targets

Source: AIDSinfo

Rigorous advocacy and technical support led to increased government funding for HIV prevention and treatment programmes, with the government now covering 90% of treatment costs, compared to 60% in 2021. A new national procurement law will enable procurement of affordable and prequalified antiretroviral medicines from the United Nations agencies to support the Government’s efforts in scaling up access to HIV treatment (UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNAIDS Secretariat).

Community-led HIV prevention services were strengthened with the implementation of social contracting. In addition, US$ 27 million was mobilized from the Global Fund for the HIV and tuberculosis responses during the 2024-2026 grant period with active participation of civil society and technical support from the Joint Programme (UNDP, UNFPA, UNAIDS Secretariat).