87% hike in HIV cases in July – DoH
By Jenny F. Manongdo (first posted 04 September 2010)
06-Sep-2010
MSM make up 75 percent of the total HIV figures
(Manila) A striking 87 percent increase in the number of individuals who tested positive for HIV was reported Friday by the Department of Health (DoH) when it released its surveillance data pointing to 131 new infections in July 2010.
In July last year, only 70 were confirmed positive for HIV
From January to July 2010, the figures for HIV has reached 940 and 12 of these were reported as AIDS.
From 1984 to 2010, the Philippine HIV/AIDS Registry registered 5,364 HIV and 849 AIDS cases.
The registry said most of the individuals, about 90 percent of them, were males and the most number of infections come from the productive age group, between 20 to 29 years old.
Forty-eight percent of the reported cases were from the National Capital Region (NCR) and 22 out of the 131 new cases were overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
“From 1984 to 2010, there were 849 AIDS cases reported, 71 percent or 602 were males… Of the AIDS cases, there were 323 or 38 percent deaths during the reported period. Sexual contact was the most common mode of HIV transmission, accounting for 93 percent or 788 of all AIDS cases,” it added.