Final evaluation of the AIDS surveillance and education project (ASEP)

Evaluation covers the period 7/92-5/01. ASEP implementation is led by the World Health Organization/Western Pacific Regional Office (WHO/WPRO) and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and focuses on eight major cities of the country. Overall, ASEP has been highly successful and has accomplished a great deal at a relatively low cost. The continued slow pace of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is due in part program accomplishments, of which three are major: (1) In 1993, ASEP established the country"s first HIV/AIDS sentinel surveillance, a system that now covers 10 cities. Surveillance data show that prevalence continues to remain at very low levels even among high-risk groups (