Iraq HIV country profile 2016

Sociodemographic data

  • Total population (in millions) : 37.5
  • Maternal mortality per 100 000 live births :50
  • Life expectancy at birth (years) : 69
  • Total fertility rate (births per woman) : 4.6
  • GNI per capita, PPP (current international US$) :15 340
  • Health expenditure, total (% of GDP) : 5.5
  • Health expenditure per capita (current US$) : 292
  • Human Development Index Value :0.65

HIV care cascade and progress towards 90-90-90

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Epidemiological data (2016)

HIV estimates and case notification

 

Estimated

Reported

HIV prevalence in general population

NA

People living with HIV (PLHIV)

NA

New infections

NA

54

AIDS-related deaths

NA 12

 

 

 

HIV in specific populations

 

Survey data

 

Size estimate

Routine testing and VCT data

Key populations

 

 

 

No tested

HIV+ cases (%)

Sex workers (SW)

2.1%

 

 

 

 

Men having sex with men (MSM)

 

 

 

 

People who inject drugs (PWIDs)

 

 

2128

.05%

Prisoners

 

 

 

 

Populations in health settings

 

 

 

 

 

TB patients

 

 

 

 

 

Pregnant women

 

 

 

36 697

0%

Blood donors

 

 

 

 

 

Clients of testing services

 

 

 

 

 

Response

Policy implementation

 

 

Implementation of national policy on HIV self-testing (HIVST)

Unknown

Recommended initiation threshold adults and children

Data not reported

Implementation of Treat all adults and adolescents

Data not reported

Treatment initiation threshold children

Data not reported

Implementation of lifelong ART to pregnant & breastfeeding women

Data not reported

Implementation of national policy on viral load monitoring

Partially implemented


HIV testing coverage in key populations *

Data not available

Antiretroviral therapy and PMTCT coverage

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References

 1 http://www.prb.org/pdf16/prb-wpds2016-web-2016.pdf; (2) WHO.EMRO Regional Surveillance Data; (3) WHO/UNAIDS data spectrum 2016; (4) Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) 2016.*These are approximate estimations based on the latest available data for number of people tested and size estimates.