Reporting from Manila — Increasing HIV infection rates are raising fears that the Philippines will be faced with a public health crisis that it has long escaped.Since the Philippines reported ...

Experts warn that the surge in HIV cases among Filipino youth is being driven by policy gaps, inadequate sex education and a ...

With new infections doubling in the past six years to over 10,000 new cases in 2016 alone, the Philippines is facing an “unprecedented HIV crisis,” the global medical journal The Lancet said ...

While in 2012 there were only about nine new HIV cases recorded daily in the Philippines, that number rose to 46 in 2023 — a 411 per cent increase in a little over a decade, according to a ...

Philippines eyes HIV public health emergency amid 500% youth surge. Mansour Al-Maswari . ... Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa, in a video message on Tuesday, warned of an accelerating crisis, ...

[37] Department of Health National HIV and STI Surveillance and Strategic Information Unit, The HIV Generation: HIV Situation in the Philippines, July 14, 2016. [38] Ibid.

Public-health experts say shooting galleries like this one are to blame for the high rate of HIV in Cebu City, one of the highest in a country that’s already struggling to combat the virus ...

The Quezon City government has enacted a gender-inclusive health ordinance, it said on Sunday, July 13. In a statement, the ...

Given his own HIV crisis, he hopes to make sure everyone has the sexual health information he didn't. "I don't want that to happen to other people," he says. Sponsor Message ...

Philippines HIV cases soar 3,147% in 10 years as Duterte says condoms 'not satisfying' Faced with sexual health crisis of epidemic proportions, Philippine President advises against using protection ...

The Philippines’ HIV epidemic continues to surge despite renewed attention from policymakers. Inadequate resources, societal stigma and limited access to healthcare undermine efforts to mount an ...