{"id":2097,"date":"2019-10-05T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2021-03-31T00:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:12:19","slug":"the-growing-hiv-epidemic-among-young-men-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/the-growing-hiv-epidemic-among-young-men-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"The growing HIV epidemic among young men in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: axios.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">The Philippines faces the world&#8217;s fastest-growing HIV epidemic, the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>\u00a0According to the\u00a0UNAIDS agency, the estimated number of new infections in the country has more than doubled in the last 5 years. Doctors and epidemiologists in the country have suggested that dating apps are a major factor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"hidden-6bd3cc65-1550-4571-b407-f965bc7aab32\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>By the number:\u00a0<\/strong>Doctors have diagnosed 67,395 Filipinos with HIV since 1984 when the first infection surfaced in the country. Three-quarters of patients were diagnosed in the past 5 years, according to the Philippine government.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">96% of those diagnosed in the last 5 years contracted the virus from a sexual encounter, the government said.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">A large majority of people with newly documented HIV cases were gay and bisexual men aged between 15 and 34.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>How it works:\u00a0<\/strong>The government does not have data on how people met their partners, but the rise in infections coincides with the growing popularity of dating apps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">Access to the internet has empowered the LGBTQ community in the conservative Catholic country, but this new freedom has collided with a lack of sex education, HIV screenings and preemptive drugs.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">Health advocates also said that &#8220;traditional social norms have kept people from using contraception and learning about responsible sexual practice,&#8221; per\u00a0WSJ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>The government<\/strong>\u00a0passed legislation that promotes sex education in schools and lowers the age for HIV screening to 15 from 18.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">With help from nonprofits, the country&#8217;s health ministry is offering finger-prick HIV tests outside gay clubs and at popular social events.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">Those who test positive are eligible for antiretrovirals to slow the virus, the government says, but government data shows that &#8220;less than half of those tested positive are currently on treatment,&#8221; per WSJ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>Go deeper:<\/strong>\u00a0CRISPR gene editing used to treat patient with cancer and HIV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[348,63,52,1675,2021,184],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aids-hiv","tag-doctors","tag-epidemic","tag-hiv","tag-philippines","tag-unaids-agency","tag-virus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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