The Philippines was among the countries that have increased public spending on HIV, according to a UN report, which noted that civic groups played key roles in HIV prevention in some Southeast Asian nations amid a coronavirus pandemic. READ:
But the Philippines just like other nations in the Asia-Pacific region, faces mismatch issues in terms of public investment in HIV response, denying key population segments of state support.
“Regardless of how big or small the prevention spending, spending on key populations is much lower,” said Taoufik Bakkali, UNAIDS regional director for Asia and the Pacific, as the world celebrated World Aids Day on Dec. 1. Donor funding had helped catalyze increased domestic funding, it said citing higher external HIV funding from the US president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund in 2018 to 2021.
AIDS is the late stage of HIV infection that occurs when the body’s immune system is badly damaged by the virus, according toLast year, 650,000 people died of AIDS and 1.5 million more people got infected with HIV, according to the report. Asia and the Pacific region had the world’s second-highest transmission rate.
UNAIDS said youth-led civic groups in the Philippines played a key role in boosting anti-AIDS measures in the country during the pandemic, Earlier this year, UNAIDS said the AIDS response was in danger, with rising new infections and continuing deaths in many parts of the world. In its latest report, the agency cited inequalities as the underlying reason.It cited the refusal of governments to legalize some aspects of sex work as well as the criminalization of same-sex relations in the region.
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