By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippines is now one of the seven countries in the world with steadily increasing cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and
most of the new cases are males who got the virus through sex with other males.
HIV is the virus that causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a disease in which the body’s immune systems are attacked, weakened and undermined. This condition eventually leads to death.
Dr. Enrique Tayag, director of the National Epidemiology Center of the Department of Health (DoH), made the disclosure during the presentation of the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) 2011 State of the World's Children report at the Sulu Hotel in Quezon City, on Wednesday.
Other countries named to have steadily increasing HIV cases were Armenia, Bangladesh, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Tayag said during the forum that the predominant mode of sexual transmission has changed since 2007 from heterosexual sex to sex between men.
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