Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The HIV Epidemic and the Unclear Strategy

Commentaries on the Philippine Response to the HIV Epidemic
Short Commentaries Number 1 - The Epidemic and the Unclear Strategy

In 2001, an HIV case is reported every 2 days. In the 10 HIV surveillance sites, few cases are found among female sex workers and hardly any case was reported the men who have sex with men and injecting drug users.


By 2011, 6 cases are reported daily in the AIDS Registry. HIV prevalence in few sites have ballooned several times. HIV prevalence among PWID reached 53% in one site, among MSM reached more than 3% in at least 5 sites, and new sites have seen new cases among sex workers.

Clearly, prevention interventions did not work. If there were, either quality or magnitude of reach is not enough!

Hey!