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Assessment of MDG 6 progress Trends On HIV/AIDS No country has been spared by the epidemic. Since the fi rst HIV case was fi rst detected in 1984, the incidence of the epidemic remains low 2 (see Figure 1) and its prevalence remains to be below 0.01% among people aged 15-49. As stipulated in the Philippines Midterm Progress Report on the MDGs in 2007, the probability of attaining the target on HIV/AIDS is high. However, fi gures over the years and recent demographics on cases suggest that the number of infected cases has signifi - cantly increased in the recent past. According to the Department of Health (DOH), Figure 1. Estimated number of people living with HIV, 2001-2007 Source: UNAIDS/WHO, 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, July 2008 108 SOCIAL WATCH PHILIPPINES 4,971 HIV cases had been reported from 1984 to April 2010 3 (see Figure 2). However, although the country has a low HIV/AIDS prevalence rate, the number of reported cases has slowly and consistently increased through the years. 4 While in the past years, an average of only 10 cases were reported per month, compared to the monthly average registration from 2002-2007, which was 20 per month, the AIDS Registry showed an average of 29 new HIV cases per month for 2007. The fi rst and second quarter of 2008 had an average of 40-50 new cases/month. This has surpassed the total number of HIV cases annually since the AIDS registry started. Thus, from a low and slow character, it has become a growing phenomenon. 5 Source: UNAIDS 2008 6 Figure 2: Number of HIV/AIDS cases in the Philippines (Jan. 1984-April 2010; 4,971) * Five initially asymptomatic caees reported in 2008 died due to AIDS in same year 2 Table 8. Comparative epidemiological features of the HIV AIDS epidemic, Southeast Asian countries, 2000 in Simbulan, N.P. & Balanon, V. (March 2003).”Confronting the HIV/AIDS Problem in the Philippines: Challenges and opportunities”. 3 DOH. NEC. Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry. April 2010. 4 Simbulan, N.P. & Balanon, .L. “Confronting the HIV/AIDS Problem in the Philippines: Challenges and opportunities” March 2003. P2. 5 Fourth AIDS Medium Term Plan: 2005-2010. Philippine National AIDS Council. 6 Philippine Epidemiological Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS. December 2008.
Sexual transmission remains to be the most common mode of HIV transmission in the Philippines (see Table 1). A total of 164 returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were reported to be infected with HIV in 2009. This is the highest number since 1984 but accounts for only 18% of all individuals reported in that year. In 2007, OFWs comprised 31% of all newly diagnosed individuals reported in the country. Table 1: Comparative trend in the mode of HIV transmission from 1984-2009 The rising proportion of infected OFW’s is indicative of the lack or absence of active surveillance and monitoring in their group. The majority of persons living with HIV belong to the young adults and the working group (see Figure 3). However, current statistics could just be a mask concealing the hidden identity of the epidemic in the country as it does not necessarily refl ect the true prevalence of infection since it merely relies Modes of Transmission 2009 2008 2007 2006 Cumulative (1984-2009) Unsafe sexual contact 804 (96.29) 502 (95.08%) 320 (93.6%) 300 (97.1%) 3,994 (90.28%) Male-Male Sex 336 (41.79%) 215 (42.83%) 107 (33.4%) 81 (27.0%) 1,171 (29.32%) Male-Female Sex 216 (26.87%) 160 (31.87%) 139 (43.4%) 193 (64.3%) 2,214 (55.43%) Bisexual contact 252 (31.34%) 127 (25.3%) 74 (23.1%) 26 (8.7%) 609 (15.25%) Sharing of the infected needles (among IDU) 0 1 (0.19%) 0 0 8 (0.18%) Mother-to-Child 2 (0.24%) 2 (0.38%) 8 (2.3%) 4 (1.3%) 49 (1.11%) Contaminated Blood Products 0 0 0 0 19 (0.42%) Contaminated Needle Prick Injuries 0 0 0 0 3 (0.07%) No Data on Mode of Transmission 29 23 14 5 351 Total 835 528 342 309 4,424 Source: Country report of the Philippines January 2008-December 2009. PNAC. Figure 3: Male and female with HIV cases by age-group Source: DOH-NEC Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report 2010 109
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Winning the Numbers, Losing the War
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Many deserve our th
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CLEEP Comprehensive Livelihood and
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MOA-AD Memorandum of Agreement on A
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS Leon
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FOREWORD By ISAGANI R. SERRANO This
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An urgent MDG message: Inadequate f
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The use of the budget instrument fo
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MDG chances: stability and vulnerab
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may mean a short honeymoon period.
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what we got from Annex I countries
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(Php58.6 Billion) of GDP at current
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Fourth Assessment Report provide a
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Losing the war on poverty The Other
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Table 1. Philippines’ MDG progres
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(NER) and medium on both cohort sur
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incidence of 97.46 percent. The las
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special needs; (c) 228,928 women in
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cultural structures urgently needin
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capacity to confront the dreaded cl
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MDG Goal 1 Targets 1 and 3: On erad
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Table 1. Prevalence of undernutriti
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2007, women’s national unemployme
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in the service and production secto
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een generally positive—increased
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Table 9: Partial Listing of Big Lan
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and promote gender equality in all
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While many see this as an education
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seen in both public and private pre
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and therefore, limited coverage. Th
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Table 7. Education Expenditure as a
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Box 2. Education budget tracking (2
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This paper looks at highly vulnerab
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to education. 5 In practice, debt p
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and Palawan movement and Mindanao I
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Appendix B Are the Moros Filipinos?
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Government with respect to the Moro
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legal and political shields behind
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Goals and Targets (from the Millenn
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