Philippines

Population: - 86,241,697 as of July 2004
Population Growth: - 1.88% (well under most countries in Africa)

Death rate 5.53 per 1,000

Median age: - 22.1 years (Lots of young people)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: - Less than 0.1%

HIV/AIDS deaths: - Less than 500

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rp.html

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he U.S. Army study of 1.1 million G.I.'s who were stationed in the
Phillipines (over a ten year period) and kept 100,000 prostitutes in
business (70% were said to be HIV positive.

The study showed only ONE was HIV positive and not sick.This was the only
case of mass HIV testing in the World.

Condoms in the Phillipines are of such poor quality that only 8% can even
hold water.

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There are 400,000 to 500,000 prostituted persons in the Philippines.

Prostituted persons are mainly adult women, but there are also male,
transvestite and child prostitutes, both girls and boys. (International
Labor Organization. Dario Agnote, "Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian
economies, study says," Kyodo News, 18 August 1998)

In the Philippines, a recent study showed there are about 75,000
children,
who were forced into prostitution due to poverty. (Dario Agnote, "Sex
trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says," Kyodo News, 18
August
1998)

There are 400,000 women in prostitution in 1998, excluding unregistered,
seasonal prostitutes, overseas entertainers and victims of external
trafficking. One fourth of them are children and each year 3,266 more
children are forced into the sex industry. (GABRIELA, Diana Mendoza, "RP
Has 400,000 Prostitutes," TODAY, 25 February 1998)

Military prostitution, it added, has always been a problem in the past
when the US bases were still in the country. Past experience clearly
showed that the security of the Filipino people, especially women and
children, from the US military was never taken into account.
("Ex-streetwalkers fight VFA: Form advocacy groups in urban centers," The
Philippine Journal, 18 September 1998)

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Subsequently, the U.S. built 23 military installations covering a total
area of more than 240,000 hectares ofland (2,400 sq.km.) by the time of
the signing of the Military Bases Agreement in 1947. At its peak the
bases
occupied nearly 1% of the country's total land area not to mention 11,000
hectares of territorial waters and a large swath of air space.

http://www.wowessays.com/dbase/ae4/lmy301.shtml
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"Why don't Filipinos want US troops in the Philippines?

There is a long history of US military intervention in the Philippines
from the Philippine-American War (1899-1916) in which the US colonized
the
Philippines. Filipinos resisted and one-eighth of the Filipino people
were
killed. Even though the Philippines officially became independent from
the
US in 1946, the US ensured control of the US military bases in the
Philippines and access to Philippine natural resources.

The US military bases were finally kicked out in 1991 after mass protest
from the Filipino people who were tired of special protected status for
US
soldiers, toxic wastes (that until today, the US refuses to clean up),
the
prostitution of Filipinas, and the spread of alcoholism and drug use.
Filipinos don't want these again. "

AND REMEMBER THIS IS A CATHOLIC COUNTRY WITH VERY LOW CONDOM USAGE

A robust reply to a guy that doesn't deserve it! But heck, I like
playing with you, Paul

Yes, they do. Whether cell-associated HIV or cell-free.

Hey--at least you recognize HIV exists. I suppose that's a start.

Or are you going to flip-flop on that one?

        George M. Carter