HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines May 2023

In May 2023, there were 1,256 confirmed HIV-positive individuals reported to the HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP) and were accounted to the total (116,504) reported cases since January 1984. Moreover, 323 (26%) of individuals reported in May had an advanced HIV infections at the time of diagnosis. There were 132 deaths that were newly reported this year. 

Of the total reported cases this period, 1,186 (94%) were male while 70 (6%) were female. Moreover, 707 (56%) were cisgender, 27 (2%) were transgender women, seven (1%) identified as others, two (<1%) as neither man nor woman, and 513 (41%) had unknown gender identity'.