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MANILA, 4 June, 2025–The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Philippines calls for immediate and intensified action to address the country’s rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, supporting the call of Department of Health for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to sign the pending Executive Order declaring HIV as an urgent public health concern requiring nationwide response.
PHNOM PENH, 16 May 2025—UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, saw firsthand Cambodia’s strong progress towards ending AIDS as a public health threat during her 12-16 May mission. Among other achievements, the country treats 100% of people who are aware of their HIV status. Key approaches include national roll-out of modern HIV prevention and treatment tools, community-led service delivery and social protection. During the visit she discussed the sustainability of the response with… Read More
Em Ra disappears into the house twice, slipping past the shrine of flowers and incense by the front door. First, she brings out an old HIV magazine. She flips to a page of a small child, sitting on the back seat of a bike, looking straight into the camera. Next, she emerges with two framed photographs from a recent university graduation.
In 2010, at age 23, Ayu Oktariani learned she was HIV positive. Not only did she lose her husband to AIDS, but during her pregnancy her daughter was infected.
BANGKOK, 10 April, 2025—Every child deserves the best start to a healthy life, free from preventable diseases and infections. To this end, today the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS launched the Regional Roadmap for the Triple Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission (EMTCT) of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B in the Asia and Pacific Region (2024–2030). This resource offers guidance to strengthen national strategies and operational plans to end these three diseases among children in… Read More
A woman living with HIV shows up to her community clinic for antenatal care. The nurses ask why she got pregnant. A man living with HIV goes to his dental appointment. He arrives first, but the staff treat him last. A young transgender woman learns she is HIV positive. She was already scared about how she would be treated. Now she’s doubly terrified. A man living with HIV is hopeful when… Read More
“In our country we are not the priority,” Daisy Cruz says plainly. She is surrounded by other women living with HIV who agree. They share stories that are not often told about the epidemic in Asia and the Pacific. In a region where men living with the virus outnumber women roughly two to one, the issues of women and girls are often overlooked. They are all members of the International Community of… Read More
Adrian Lindayag, a Philippines actor, learned he was living with HIV in 2017. But even before then, he’d felt the weight of the disease.
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