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Republic of the Philippines

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http://www.gov.ph/

Summary

Population (July 2008 est.): 92,681,453

Economic Indicators (2007 est.):
GDP (PPP): US$299.6 billion
GDP per capita (PPP): US$3,400

HIV estimates:
Adults and children with HIV (2007): 8,300
Adult (15-49) Prevalence Rate (2007 high estimate): <0.1%
Women age (15+) with HIV (2005): 3400
AIDS deaths (2007): <200

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... ]
• 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. (Also available at http://www.aidslaw.ca/publications/interfaces/downloadFile.php?ref=727) [ 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... ]
• 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... ]
• 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... ]
• 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... ]
• 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, HIV and Men Who Have Sex With Men in Asia and the Pacific, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, (UNAIDS/06.25E), UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, September 2006, 72 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; 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... ]
• Uraya Land Development Incorporated, Uraya Land Development Incorporated Policy on HIV/AIDS, n/d, 5 pp. (Also available at http://www.wavesdavao.com/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... ]
• 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: 26 August 2008

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