US commits ₱875M for PH AIDS prevention, treatment efforts

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The United States announces that it is providing ₱875 million to assist the Philippines in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS. WorldAIDSDay

The United States government has committed more than ₱875M over two years for the Philippines' prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, the U.S. Embassy announced Tuesday, World AIDS Day.

"The PEPFAR program will address the increasing number of people who are living with HIV in the Philippines, which has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region," said the embassy in a statement. The Health Department says an average of 21 new cases are now being reported in the Philippines every day. Meanwhile, the number of HIV and AIDS cases from January 1984 to October 2020 has breached 81,000, according to the agency's HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines.

 

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