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WHO and UNAIDS convene partners to explore solutions to the Region’s HIV crisis NADI, Fiji, 22 October 2025 — The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific and UNAIDS Asia-Pacific have convened a range of stakeholders here to confront the Region’s HIV crisis amid growing national epidemics. Held during the seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific and at the request of the Fiji Ministry… Read More
This case study is featured in the 2025 Global AIDS Update “We will focus on treatment!”
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.
MANILA, 1 March, 2025. In a powerful demonstration of this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme “We Stand Together,” communities of people living with HIV, persons with disabilities and key populations convened with government agencies and civil society organizations to validate findings of a national assessment on how discrimination continues to create barriers in accessing HIV services in the Philippines.
Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines prepare to introduce the DVR When Elena Felix contracted HIV the only prevention tools available were condoms. She didn’t think she needed them then. Thirty years after her diagnosis, she’s helped conduct research to determine whether women in the Philippines would use a new tool to lower their risk of HIV infection.
BANGKOK, April 7, 2023—Country teams and community networks tackling rising HIV infections in four Asia Pacific countries are discussing innovative strategies and solutions to explore how they can accelerate progress and achieve sustainable results. The Indo Pacific HIV Prevention Program aims to lower new infections and address inequalities that are slowing progress toward ending AIDS in Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. On April 6 and 7, UNAIDS is supporting the… Read More
UNAIDS is concerned that media reports which make reference to HIV research in the Philippines are being interpreted as saying that there is a new and untreatable strain of the virus in the country. There is no new strain of HIV which has been found in the Philippines. The variants of the virus found in the Philippines have not changed and are similar to the strains of the virus found in many… Read More
The Philippines has the fast-growing HIV epidemic in Asia and the Pacific. Mae (not her real name) is a 13-year-old girl from Valenzuela City who was born with HIV. She is currently a student and recently started her first year of high-school. UNAIDS spoke to her about her experience.
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