MANILA: The Philippines has the fastest growing number of HIV infections in Asia, a report by the United Nations and the government showed Tuesday.
The Southeast Asian nation saw a 140 percent increase in new cases from 2010 to 2016, even though the annual number of new infections in Asia-Pacific declined by 13 percent over the same period, according to the report.
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