On Friday, the Human Rights Watch released a report highlighting the extent of discrimination faced by HIV positive employees in the Philippines. The report stated that despite the fact that it is illegal to not hire, fire, or terminate an employee based on their HIV positive status under the Philippine law, workers are facing massive amounts of discrimination and harassment for being HIV positive. The Philippines currently has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region. About 83% of the 49,733 cases of HIV in the country were reported in the last 5 years.
See "Philippines - workers with HIV face discrimination, says HRW", Deutsche Welle, February 9, 2018