 The Government of Nepal's National Center for AIDS & STD Control (NCASC) estimated that number to be closer to 70,000 in December 2007.A study from 2014 found that the overall national HIV prevalence was 0.20% (adult male 0.28%, adult female 0.13%).According to UNAIDS, by the end of 2015, the number of people living with HIV was 39,000 [34,000–46,000].