On average, 57 new cases a day were tallied in the country of 117 million people over the first three months of 2025, a 50 percent jump from a year earlier, health department data shows.
“What is frightening is, our youth make up many of the new cases,“ he said.
The health department said 95 percent of newly reported cases were male, with 33 percent aged 15-24 and 47 percent aged 25-34.
Under Philippine law, the president can declare a health emergency if an epidemic poses a threat to national security. The start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 was the last time that was done.
Sexual contact remains the predominant mode of transmission, with the bulk of cases since 2007 attributed to men having sex with men.
HIV cases have been on the rise in the Philippines since 2021, with 252,800 people estimated to be living with HIV in the country by the end of this year.
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