HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines April 2023

In April 2023, there were 1,240 confirmed HIV-positive individuals reported to the HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP) and were accounted to the total (115,248) reported cases since January 1984. Moreover, 335 (27%) of individuals reported in April had an advanced HIV infections at the time of diagnosis. There were 101 deaths that were newly reported this year. 

Of the total reported cases this period, 1,164 (94%) were male while 76 (6%) were female. Moreover, 692 (56%) were cisgender, 21 (2%) were transgender women, 12 (1%) identified as others, one (<1%) as neither man nor woman, and 514 (41%) had unknown gender identity'.