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Created: 2025-06-03 15:41:47 UTC

WHAT IS HIV? 

The number of young Filipinos infected with human immunodeficiency virus has increased by 500%, prompting the Department of Health to request for the declaration of a national public health emergency for HIV.

But what is HIV, how is it transmitted, and how can it be prevented?

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