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— BM, GMA Integrated News This article UN urges stronger HIV response as cases among Filipino youth surge by 500% was originally published in GMA News Online.

Philippine medical authorities on Tuesday warned of a looming “public health emergency” as HIV infections have soared this year, with young males especially hard-hit. On average, 57 new cases ...

National emergency over HIV The Philippines is now experiencing the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the Western Pacific, with a 500% surge in new daily cases. From January to March 2025, the ...

While significant progress has been made globally in curbing the spread of HIV, the Philippines has one of the fastest-growing infection rates in the world. Despite opposition from the Catholic ...

A global surge in infections is predicted if U.S. funding continues to be withdrawn from the world's largest AIDS program, according to UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima.

HIV/AIDS cases and deaths have gone up dramatically in the Philippines in the last decade, even though there are drugs to both prevent transmission and to treat the disease.

The Department of Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa has asked that the Philippines declare Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) a national emergency, as HIV cases among Filipino youth have increased ...

THE United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have backed the call of the Department of Health (DOH) to declare HIV an urgent public health concern. In a ...

Darwin Tenoria, an HIV program officer with a charity in the Philippines, was preparing to speak to a group of high school students when a teacher came to him with a request. After a decades-long ...

I’VE BEEN LOOKING at the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) numbers here in the Philippines, and it’s both alarming and frustrating that they’re mostly ignored by the media and government departments ...

The Philippines is witnessing a rapid rise in HIV infections, recording a 543% rise in cases between 2010 and 2023. One in three people living with HIV is diagnosed at a late stage, compounding ...