Philippine AIDS Bill Silent on Condom Promotion

Expand Students receive free condoms at an event organized by the United Nations Population Fund in Metro Manila, July 11, 2014. © 2014 Reuters The Philippine Senate passed a bill on Monday that would amend the country’s 20-year-old AIDS law, and which promises to improve the government’s response to the HIV epidemic, the fastest-growing in the Asia-Pacific region. The draft law, which still needs to be harmonized with the version the House of Representatives passed in December, outlines a rights-based response to the epidemic. The proposed law will provide more resources to the Philippine…

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