HIV/AIDS in Asia

The Ministry of Health in Bulgaria revealed that a staggering 90.8% of newly reported HIV cases were transmitted sexually, marking a concerning trend on World AIDS Day. Since the start of this year, 228 new HIV-positive cases have emerged, totaling 4,276 cases between 1986 and November 2023.

We are commemorating World AIDS Day in the context of a round anniversary - 40 years since the opening of the world's first AIDS case. Momchil Baev, a health management specialist, commented on this in "The Day Begins".

It is time to remember that in addition to the current covid pandemic, there is another that has taken many more lives, Baev called.

Pera Film, like every year to raise awareness on World AIDS Day, this year is presenting "I'm Here!" which is a special program that will launch in collaboration with Visual AIDS, a contemporary arts organization committed to raising AIDS awareness.

A human rights watchdog says the Philippines is facing one of the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the Asia Pacific, fueled by government policies that restrict intervention, including access to condom by men who have sex with men.

The number of recorded HIV/AIDS patients in Turkey has increased 522 percent over the course of the last decade, bringing the total number of AIDS patients in the country to 11,906, according to a member of Turkey's National Health Commission.

The number of the Romanian HIV/AIDS patients has reached 12,732, with 524 of them being new cases found this year, Professor Doctor Adrian Streinu-Cercel, the manager of Bucharest-based Matei Bals National Institute of Infectious Diseases announced at a conference on Wednesday.

Global AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections have fallen by over a third in a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday as it voiced hope of wiping out the killer disease.
      
The global effort to beat the pandemic has made huge strides, though the battle is far from over with 35 million people still living with HIV worldwide, said Michel Sidibe, head of UNAIDS.