The City at the Heart of the Philippines’s HIV Epidemic
Posted - February 1, 2016
In October 2015, the DOH’s HIV/AIDS
registry counted just over 29,000 cases in the country since 1984—with more
than 24,000 of them reported after 2010.....
The Dangerous Drugs Act was amended in 2009 to criminalize the possession and distribution of drug paraphernalia like syringes. As a result, Cebu’s local public-health organizations had to discontinue their needle-exchange programs; the city also passed an ordinance limiting the sales of needles and syringes without a prescription.
The following year, HIV cases among injecting drug users in Cebu jumped from less than 1 percent to 53 percent.
The Dangerous Drugs Act was amended in 2009 to criminalize the possession and distribution of drug paraphernalia like syringes. As a result, Cebu’s local public-health organizations had to discontinue their needle-exchange programs; the city also passed an ordinance limiting the sales of needles and syringes without a prescription.
The following year, HIV cases among injecting drug users in Cebu jumped from less than 1 percent to 53 percent.
Seems to have been caused by government stupidity!
But it does mean there is a huge population of druggies in Cebu.
Add to this the enormous gay and lesbian population plus the sex tourists, then the number of HIV/AIDS cases is substantially higher then reported.
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/cebu-city-philippines-hiv-drugs/422700/
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