HIV risk not about sexuality – experts

BAGUIO CITY: More than half of reported modes of human immunodeficiency virus or HIV transmission in 2014 was through homosexual contact, latest data from the Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry National Epidemiology Center show. Health authorities, at the same time, stressed that this data is indicative of risky behavior, not sexuality.

In a recently concluded media briefing by the Philippine Legislators’ Committee in Population and Development (PLCPD), dubbed: “Break barriers, end the trend: Addressing the HIV epidemic in the Philippines,” it was reported that 95 percent of the HIV cases in the Philippines in recent years involved male patients.