Xinhua News Agency reported from Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Recently, the Philippines is facing the rapid increase in the spread of HIV in the Asia-Pacific region.
After the number of Filipinos diagnosed with the infection in 2025 was 61 per day, an increase of 22% from 2023, there was a call for stricter measures to control the situation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) previously stated that the Philippines and Papua New Guinea are among the Asia-Pacific countries with a continuous increase in the infection rate and are experiencing the highest rate of new infections in the region.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that Fiji has seen a 10-fold increase in HIV infections in the past decade, driven largely by injecting drug use.
Papua New Guinea declared HIV a national emergency in June after a surge in infections among women of reproductive age and children.
In the Philippines, new HIV infections are expected to increase six-fold between 2010 and 2024. WHO estimates that new infections will increase by 550% from 4,400 in 2010 to 29,000 in 2024, with young men who have sex with men being the most affected group.