In an earlier interview, Baguio City Health Officer Dr. Florence Reyes said the city, since it started monitoring cases in 1992, has 49 HIV positive individuals with eight recorded cases registered only last year.
said 2011 has the highest in terms of number of increase monitored in a year with 82 percent of these cases coming from men having sex with Men or MSM group.
said the increase in cases all over the country is much higher with more than 100 percent increase noted also from the MSM group.
This year, though it is too early to tell, Reyes
said there have been no confirmed reports of HIV-positive cases recorded by the health department.
While the number of HIV positive individuals has decreased in other countries, she
said the country continues to have a soaring number of cases mainly due to lack of awareness.