HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines: April - June 2020

From April to June 2020, there were 934 newly confirmed HIV-positive individuals reported to the HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP) [Figure 1]. Twenty-nine percent (268) had clinical manifestations of advanced HIV infectiona at the time of testing.

Ninety-four percent (874) of the newly diagnosed were male. The median age was 28 years old (age range: 1-67 years old). Almost half of the cases (48%, 446) were 25-34 years old and 28% (259) were 15-24 years old at the time of diagnosis.