Population size, HIV prevalence, and antiretroviral therapy coverage among key populations in sub-Saharan Africa: collation and synthesis of survey data 2010-2023

This dataset contains surveillance study estimates for population size, HIV prevalence, and ART coverage among female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), people who inject drugs (PWID), and transgender men and women (TGM/W) from 2010-2023. It was created to support the UNAIDS Estimates Key Population Workbook for use by HIV estimates teams in sub-Saharan Africa. Key population surveillance reports, including Ministry of Health-led biobehavioural surveys, mapping studies, and academic studies were used to populate the database.

The dataset was populated using existing key population size estimate databases including:

• UNAIDS Key Population Atlas
• US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance database
• Global Fund against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria surveillance database
• Global.HIV database
• Systematic review databases among MSM (Stannah et al, 2019 and Stannah et al., 2023) and PWID (Degenhardt et al., 2023)

and was additionally supplemented by a literature review of peer-reviewed and grey literature sources.

The data can be explored in this web application and the accompanying manuscript can be found here