Country Progress Report - Philippines: Global AIDS Monitoring 2018

At the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS that took place in June in New York, Member States adopted a new Political Declaration which contained new targets to effectively respond to the AIDS epidemic. The 2011 Political Declaration mandates UNAIDS to support countries in reporting back on progress made towards achieving the new commitments. It also provides for the UN Secretary-General to report regularly to the General Assembly on progress achieved in realizing these commitments.

The HIV epidemic in the Philippines has been rapidly changing and expanding in the past five years. From a low and slow to fast and furious epidemic, the number of diagnosed HIV infections has increased dramatically to 31 cases a day. Currently, there are a total of 50,725 diagnosed HIV cases from January 1984 to December 2017 reported in the HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP).