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Republic of the Philippines

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http://www.gov.ph/

Summary

Population (July 2011 est.): 101,833,938

Economic Indicators (2010 est.):
GDP (PPP): US$351.4 billion
GDP per capita (PPP): US$3,500

HIV estimates:
Number of people living with HIV (2009): 8,700
Adult (15-49) Prevalence Rate (2009): <0.1%
Women age (15+) with HIV (2009): 2,600
AIDS deaths (2009): <200

Various sources, including UNAIDS.

Related Entries

Agencies

• Philippine National AIDS Council, Philippines, Republic of the (1992 - )

Organisations

• Asian Development Bank (1966 - )
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (1989 - )
• Association of South-East Asian Nations (1967 - )
• Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (1965 - )

Related Inter-Governmental Organisations

• Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organization (1948 - )

Related NGOs or Civil Society Organisations

• ACHIEVE (Action for Health Initiatives)
• Remedios AIDS Foundation, Inc. (1991 - )
• TLF Sexuality, Health & Rights Educators Collective

Related Regions

• Asia-Pacific
• South-East Asia

Published Resources

Books

• Yamamoto,Tadashi and Satoko Itoh (eds), Fighting a Rising Tide: The Response to AIDS in East Asia, Japan Centre for International Exchange, 2006. [ Details... ]

Conference Proceedings

• East Asian Regional Response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Commemorative Symposium on the Fifth Anniversary of the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit, Japan Centre for International Exchange, Tokyo, June 2005, 136 pp. (Also available at http://www.jcie.or.jp/books/abstracts/E/aids_conf.pdf) [ Details... ]

Journals

• Detels, Roger (ed.), 'HIV Surveillance, Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment in Asia', AIDS Education and Prevention, vol. 16, SA, 2004, 187 pp. (Also available at http://www.fic.nih.gov/news/fogarty/2004/HIVinAsia2004.pdf) [ Details... ]

Reports

• Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998, Republic ACT 8504, PNAC - Philippine National AIDS Council, Manila, February 13, 1998, 47 pp. (Also available at http://www.doh.gov.ph/aids/irr.doc) [ Details... ]
• Seizing the Opportunity: The 2000-2004 Medium Term-Plan for Accelerating the Philippine Response to HIV/AIDS (AMTP), PNAC - Phillipine National AIDS Council, 1999, 40 pp. (Also available at http://www.un.org.ph/agencies/UNAIDS/PSPlan.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Sex Work in Asia, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, July 2001, 38 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/D01A4265-A142-4E19-99AE-6CC7E44F995C/0 Sex_Work_in_Asia_July2001.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Ministerial Statement: Second Asia-Pacific Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS 11 July 2004, Bangkok Thailand, 11 July 2004, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.ias.se/bangkok/admin/images/upload/573.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Global Reach: How Trade Unions Are Responding to AIDS: Case Studies of Union Action, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection/06.23E, UNAIDS, July 2006, 72 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• HIV/AIDS Indicators Country Report: Philippines 1993 - 2003, This report is generated from the HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database (http://www.measuredhs.com/hivdata/start.cfm)., HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database, n/d, 28 pp. (Also available at http://www.measuredhs.com/hivdata/reports/pdf_temp B1943536-1143-E773-EBDA72EF9BFDE992.pdf) [ Details... ]
• ABD - Asian Development Bank, Subproject 5: Strengthening Country Response to HIV/AIDS among High Risk Groups in the Philippines (Financed by the Cooperation Fund for Fighting HIV/AIDs), Technical Assistance Report, ADB, February 2007, 19 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Aceijas, Carmen; Stimson, Gerry V; Hickman, Matthew; Rhodes, Tim; on behalf of the United Nations Reference Group on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care among IDU in Developing and Transitional Countries, Global Overview of Injecting Drug Use and HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users, AIDS. 18 (17): 2295-2303, November 19, 2004., Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour (CRDHB), Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK, 2004, 8 pp. (Also available at http://www.aidsonline.com/pt/re/aids pdfhandler.00002030-200411190-00010.pdf;jsessionid= GftJKJb8n8v62ZFc6CRKT8QrD1ZmfpMXl42yvzTtLgMpQn2h8CZ1!-1734750035!-949856144!8091!-1) [ Details... ]
• Aldaba, Fernando and Josie Petilla, Governance and HIV: Government/Civil Society Interface: An Aspect of Governance Critical to an Effective Response, A Case Study from the Philippines - Interim Results, UNDP Regional Project on HIV and Development, New Delhi, October 1997, 24 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Aldaba, Fernando T.; Josefa P. Petilla, Governance and HIV: Government - Civil Society Interface: An Aspect of Governance Critical to an Effective Response, UNDP Regional Project on HIV and Development, UNDP, n/d, 64 pp. [ Details... ]
• amFAR - The Foundation for AIDS Research and MSMGF - The Global Forum on MSM and HIV, Lessons From the Front Lines: Effective Community-Led Responses to HIV and AIDS Among MSM and Transgender Populations, amFAR and MSMGF, Washington DC, July 2010, 28 pp. (Also available at http://www.amfar.org/uploadedFiles/In_the_Community/Publications Lessons%20from%20the%20Front%20Lines.pdf?n=3815) [ Details... ]
• APEC Health Working Group, Capacity Building Seminar on Social Policies for Migrants to Prevent the Transmission of HIV/AIDS, Ha Noi, Viet Nam 18-19 September 2008, APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat, Ha Noi, September 2008, 228 pp. (Also available at http://www.apec.org/apec/enewsletter/nov_vol18/publication.html#0015) [ Details... ]
• Aquino, C., D'Agnes, L., Castro, J., Borromeo, M., Schmidt, K. and Gill, K., Policy and Advocacy Efforts for HIV and AIDS Prevention: The AIDS Surveillance and Education Project in the Philippines., PATH, Makati City, Philippines, August 2003. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting, HIV/AIDS and Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Lengthening Shadow, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne, 9-10 October 2001, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.ahrn.net/library_upload/uploadfile/ICAAPMinisterialStatement.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting, Ministerial Statement - Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting: 9-10 October 2001, Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting, Melbourne, 2001, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.ahrn.net/library_upload/uploadfile/ICAAPMinisterialStatement.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Baden, Sally, Women, HIV/AIDS and Development: Towards Gender Appropriate Prevention Strategies in South-East Asia and the South Pacific, BRIDGE (development - gender), Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, October 1992, 59 pp. (Also available at http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports/re5c.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Programming HIV/AIDS: A Human Rights Approach, A tool for international development and community-based organizations responding to HIV/AIDS, Canadian Version edn, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2004, 38 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Commission on AIDS in Asia, Redefining AIDS in Asia: Crafting an Effective Response - Report of the Commission on AIDS in Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 26 March 2008, 258 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Derks, Annuska, Combating Trafficking in South-East Asia: A Review of Policy and Programme Responses, IOM Migration Research Series No.2, IOM - International Organization for Migration, Geneva, 2000, 88 pp. (Also available at http://www.old.iom.int/documents/publication/en/mrs_2_2000.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Hagarty, Chris, Harm Reduction in Asia: Progress Towards Universal Access to Harm Reduction Services Among People Who Inject Drugs, Commissioned on behalf of The United Nations Regional Task Force on Injecting Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, March 2010, 230 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Hardee, Karen, Pamela Pine and Lauren Taggert Wasson, Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health in the Asia and Near East Region: Status, Issues, Policies, and Programs, POLICY Project, October 2003, 57 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/generalreport/ARH_ANE.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Health Information Consulting, InfoDev: Facilitating Communications in Response to HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia, UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, July 2001, 53 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Human Rights Watch, The Philippines Unprotected: Sex, Condoms and the Human Right to Health, Vol. 16, No. 6 (C) edn, Human Rights Watch, © May 2004, 70 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• IOM Bangkok, HIV/AIDS and Populations Mobility: Overview of the IOM Global HIV/AIDS Programme 2006, International Organization for Migration, 2006, 20 pp. (Also available at http://www.old.iom.int/iomwebsite/Publication ServletSearchPublication?event=detail&id=5131) [ Details... ]
• IPPF - International Planned Parenthood Federation, UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund, The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and Young Positives, Report Card: HIV Prevention for Girls and Young Women, Philippines, n/d, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/docs/report-cards/philippines.pdf) [ Details... ]
• ITPC - International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, Missing the Target #5: Improving AIDS Drug Access and Advancing Health Care for All, Missing the Target Series, Embargoed Until 27 November 2007, 10am eastern standard Time 15:00 GMT, ITPC, December 2007, 114 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Libatique, Ruthy C. D., Global Fund Proposal Development - A Philippines Experience, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, March 2004, 10 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Lowe, David, Scoping Exercise: Options for AusAID Support for Comprehensive Approaches to Address HIV Infection Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Asia Pacific Region, Australian Agency for International Development Health Resource Facility, Turner, June 2009, 88 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Philippine National AIDS Council, Rules and Regulations Implementing the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998 (RA 8504), Manila, 13 April 1999, 26 pp. (Also available at http://www.oshc.dole.gov.ph page.php?pid=134&PHPSESSID=57c533f23e42001b8858421926cc68a4) [ Details... ]
• Philippine National AIDS Council, 4th AIDS Medium Term Plan: 2005 - 2010 (Philippines), 2005, 61 pp. (Also available at http://www.youandaids.org/Asia%20Pacific%20at%20a%20Glance/Philippines Fourth%20Medium-term%20Plan%20(2005-2010)%20-Philippines.pdf) [ Details... ]
• PRIMEX, RETA 6143: Technical Assistance for Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, ADB Technical Assistance Consultant's Report, Project Number: 37402 May 2009, ADB - Asian Development Bank, May 2009, 251 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Rampal, Krishna Gopal, HIV and AIDS and the World of Work in ASEAN, Report of ILO-ASEAN Study on Initiatives on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work in the ASEAN Region, International Labour Organization, December 2005, 59 pp. (Also available at http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/publ/asean.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Reid, G. & the Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN), The Hidden Epidemic: A Situation Assessment of Drug Use in South East and East Asia in the Context of HIV Vulnerability, AHRN, February 1998. (Also available at http://www.chr.asn.au/resources/libraryservices/docdownload/hiddenepidemic list#309) [ Details... ]
• Reid, G; and Costigan, G., Revisiting 'the Hidden Epidemic': a situation assessment of drug use in Asia in the context of HIV/AIDS, The Centre for Harm Reduction, The Burnet Institute, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health, Fairfield, January 2002. (Also available at http://www.chr.asn.au/resources/libraryservices/docdownload/revisiting/list) [ Details... ]
• Shaw, Cathy and Peter Aggleton, Preventing HIV/AIDS and Promoting Sexual Health Among Especially Vulnerable Young People, WHO/HIV/2002.23, World Health Organization and the Department For International Development (UK), July 2002, 58 pp. (Also available at http://www.socstats.soton.ac.uk/cshr/pdf/guidelines/vulnerableyp.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Smith, Gary; Susan Kippax, Peter Aggleton, HIV and Sexual Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools: Findings From Selected Asia-Pacific Countries, National Centre in HIV Social Research, October 2000, 29 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• Stephens, David, Law and Policy Review July 2009, HAARP - HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Regional Program; United Nations Regional Task Force on Injecting Drug Use and HIV/AIDS for the Asia Pacific, July 2009, 55 pp. (Also available at http://www.ausaid.gov.au/keyaid/hivaids/pdfs/haarp_lawandpolicy.pdf) [ Details... ]
• TREAT Asia, MSM and HIV/AIDS Risk in Asia: What Is Fueling the Epidemic Among MSM and How Can It Be Stopped?, TREAT Asia (amfAR - Foundation for AIDS Research), August 2006, 85 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS Counselling - Just A Phone Call Away: Four Case Studies of Telephone Hotline/Helpline Projects, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection Case Study, UNAIDS/02.41E, Parker, Warren; Helena Joseph; Jose Narciso Melchor C. Sescon; Radhika Chandiramani, UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, October 2002, 81 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, HIV and Men Who Have Sex With Men in Asia and the Pacific, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, (UNAIDS/06.25E), UNAIDS, September 2006, 72 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; PNAC - Philippines National AIDS Council, Country Profile: HIV/AIDS/STD situation in the Philippines and the national response, UNAIDS, August 1998. [ Details... ]
• UNDP - South East Asia HIV and Development Project, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore Cluster Country Consultation on Migrant Workers' HIV Vulnerability Reduction, Pre-Departure, Post-Arrival and Returnee Reintegration, UNDP - South East Asia HIV and Development Project, Thailand, September 2002, 45 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, HIV Vulnerabilities Faced by Women Migrants: From Asia to the Arab States, Executive Summary, UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo, Colombo, October 2008, 48 pp. (Also available at http://www.aidsportal.org/repos HIVVulnerabilitiesWomenMigrantsAsiatoArabStates08.pdf) [ Details... ]
• UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund, Consultation on Strategic Information and HIV Prevention among Most-at-Risk Adolescents, 2-4 September 2009, Geneva: Consultation Report, UNICEF, New York, 2009, 68 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• UNRTF - United Nations Regional Task Force Secretariat and UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, HIV/AIDS & Mobility in South-East Asia: Rapid Assessment, UNRTF Secretariat; UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, Bangkok, 2008, 39 pp. (Also available at http://www.undp.org/asia/asean-un-2008-report.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Uraya Land Development Incorporated, Uraya Land Development Incorporated Policy on HIV/AIDS, n/d, 5 pp. (Also available at http://www.wavesdavao.net/downloads/URAYA%20POLICY_07.doc) [ Details... ]
• Varga, C.A. and I. Zosa-Feranil, Adolescent Reproductive Health in Philippines: Status, Policies, Programs, and Issues, POLICY Project, January 2003, 39 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/countryreports/ARH_Philippines.pdf) [ Details... ]
• WHO - World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region, WHO - World Health Organization, 2001, 100 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
• WHO - World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region 2003, World Health Organization, 2004, 120 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/11ED3283-9821-43BE-9B73-B3444A3DADE6/0 HIV_AIDS_Asia_Pacific_Region2003.pdf) [ Details... ]
• WHO/WPRO - World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Promoting Condoms in Clinics for Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Practical Guide for Programme Planners and Managers, WHO - World Health Organization, 2001, 37 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/6D45E1A0-79B5-4FFC-B94D-389A59BC9744/0 Promoting_condoms_in_clinics_STI.pdf) [ Details... ]
• WHO/WPRO - World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific and Department of Health Philippines, Consensus Report on STI, HIV and AIDS Epidemiology: Philippines, WHO/WPRO; Department of Health Philippines, 2000, 26 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/B1D6D9DB-B27D-4BC4-A382-AF16A42E4E16/0 Consensus_Report_PHL_2000.pdf) [ Details... ]
• WHO/WPRO - World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific and Department of Health Philippines, Consensus Report on STI, HIV and AIDS Epidemiology: Philippines, WHO/WPRO; Department of Health Philippines, 2002, 31 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/A55D2615-A178-40AF-9D2D-F52CA3C367FD/0 Consensus_Report_PHL_2002.pdf) [ Details... ]
• World Health Organization - Western Pacific Regional Office, Status and Trends of STI, HIV/AIDS At the End of the Millennium, World Health Organization - Western Pacific Regional Office, Manila, 1999, 111 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/72F8FAE0-9F6A-4F5A-86DE-7363CCCEFCA3/0 Status_and_Trends_of_STI_HIV_AIDS.pdf#search= %22pacific%20islands%20seafarers%20a%20study%20on%20hiv%2Faids%20and%20sti%20related%20behaviour%22) [ Details... ]
• World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia; World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office, Biregional Strategy for Harm Reduction 2005-2009: HIV and Injecting Drug Use, World Health Organization. (Also available at http://w3.whosea.org/LinkFiles/Publications_BiregionalStrategicPlan.pdf) [ Details... ]
• World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR (China), Health Sector Response to HIV/AIDS Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: Report of the Consultation 18-20 February 2009 Hong Kong SAR (China), (WP)HSI/2009/DCC/05
  RS/2009/GE/05(HOK), World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, 2009, 42 pp. (Also available at http://www.info.gov.hk/aids/pdf/g210.pdf) [ Details... ]
• Ybanez, Riza Faith; Sahlee Bugna; Dyra Sanga; Carolyn I. Sobritchea; Malu S. Marin, Labor Migration & HIV/AIDS: Vulnerability of Filipino Migrant Workers, Kalayaan Inc. & CARAM-ASIA, 2000, 74 pp. (Also available at http://www.caramasia.org/reports/Labor%20Migration%20&%20HIV-AIDS.pdf) [ Details... ]

Sources used to compile this entry: UNAIDS; World Bank World Development Indicators Database.

Prepared by: susan chong

Created: 17 June 2004, Last modified: 6 September 2011

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