HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines: January - March 2020

From January to March 2020, there were 2,818 newly confirmed HIV-positive individuals reported to the HIV/ AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP) [Figure 1]. Seventeen percent (473) had clinical manifestations of advanced HIV infectiona at the time of testing.

Ninety-four percent (2,658) of the newly diagnosed were male. The median age was 28 years old (age range: 1-78 years old). Almost half of the cases (48%, 1,359) were 25-34 years old and 30% (834) were 15-24 years old at the time of diagnosis.