Philippines Global AIDS Response Progress Report 2012

Based on the latest HIV estimates and projections released by the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC), the number of Filipinos living with HIV was estimated at 19,000 in 2011. Of this number, 82 percent are males. The number of new cases per year increased significantly from an estimated 600 cases in 2001 to more than 4,000 in 2011 (with 83 percent males). This trend, as reported in the 2010 Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic, placed the Philippines as one of seven countries that recorded more than 25 percent increase in new cases in the last decade.