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Tajikistan has a concentrated HIV epidemic, with 5,242 people living with HIV officially registered (33% of the estimated number), and 2,167 of them receiving antiretroviral therapy (coverage 14% of the estimated and 41% of the registered number of people living with HIV) in 2014. Next to heterosexual transmission, injecting drug use is the most common way of HIV transmission. HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) and sex workers (SW) is stable. HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) is uncertain. There are significant gender (67% people living with HIV are men), age (e.g. 71% of people living with HIV are aged 19 to 39) and sub-national differences in HIV prevalence (e.g. 70% all HIV infections reported in Gorno-Badakhstan autonomous oblast were among people who inject drugs, compared with 36% in the Region of the Republican (central) subordination).