Philippines HIV/AIDS Surveillance Technical Report 2003

The 2003 Technical Report provides the facts and figures gathered by the National HIV/AIDS Sentinel Surveillance System (NHSSS) from 1993. It includes data from the AIDS Registry, the Serologic Surveillance and the Behavioral Surveillance. This report also features the data from the newly setup Sentinel STI Etiologic Surveillance System.

To keep track of the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) established passive and active surveillance systems. The passive surveillance system, the HIV/AIDS Registry, was established in 1987. It continuously logged Western Blot-confirmed HIV cases reported by hospitals, laboratories, blood banks and clinics.