HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines Jan 2023

In January 2023, there were 1,454a confirmed HIV-positive individuals reported to the HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP) and were accounted to the total (110,736) reported cases since January 1984. Moreover, 422 (29%) of individuals reported in January had an advanced HIV infections at the time of diagnosis. There were 39 deaths that were newly reported this year. 

Of the total reported cases this period, 1,383 (95%) were male while 71 (5%) were female. Moreover, 834 (57%) were cisgender, 49 (3%) were transgender women, 12 (1%) identified as others, three (<1%) as neither man nor woman, one (<1%) as transgender man, and 555 (38%) had unknown gender identity.