AIDS surveillance and education project (ASEP)

Interim evaluation covers the period 1993-2/97. The HSS is implemented by the Department of Health-Field Epidemiology Training Program through a grant to the World Health Organization. Education programs are implemented through a Cooperating Agency Agreement with the Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH) and engage governmental agencies at the national and local levels through selected NGOs. Both programs target high-risk groups, namely, registered female commercial sex workers and freelance female commercial sex workers, male sex workers, injecting drug users, men who have sex with men, and patients at STD clinics. In 9/96, the project was incorporated into a Special Objective (SpO) with the stated goal of "Rapid Spread of HIV/AIDS Prevented" and its PACD extended 3 years to 9/2000 at increased funding. The evaluation finds that there has been no "explosion" of HIV infections thus far in the Philippines, with average HIV prevalence rate at